[KSUG] Starting out in Open Source

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1. Starting out in Open Source Piotr Gawry ś github.com/Avasil | twitter.com/p_gawrys | pgawrys2@gmail.com
2. Agenda - What’s Open Source Software? - Why would I want to contribute? - In what ways can I contribute? - How? - Maintainers’ perspective
3. Open Source Software Free to: - Use - Distribute - ...and contribute!
4. Why? - improve your skills - meet people sharing the same passion - write cool stuff - advance your career - give back to the community:)
5. What’s contribution? - writing code - discussion - code review - giving feedback - helping out other users on chats/mailing lists/forums - documentation - writing blog posts, giving talks, workshops
6. How? - Find a project - Find something to do - Don’t be shy to ask for help!
7. How? - finding a project - ideally something you already use or want to - check its activity, open issues, PRs, chats - ...or start your own. ;)
8. How? - finding something to do - look for CONTRIBUTING.md section - look for issues tagged with “low-hanging-fruit”, “help wanted”, “good first issue”, “beginner friendly” or similar - share your own ideas with maintainers - simply ask
9. How? - process - fork the project - make separate branch from your fork - fix the issue - push it - click Pull Request on GitHub site - place issue number in the description, e.g. “Fixes #123” - wait for response from maintainers
10. Maintainer’s perspective - this is our hobby - we leave easier issues on purpose - we’d love to mentor anyone - we might have a lag in response time :(
11. Scala Spree?
12. Thank you! Piotr Gawry ś github.com/Avasil | twitter.com/p_gawrys | pgawrys2@gmail.com