How to get into Open Source

I talked about how to get into Open Source at Women Who Code London meetup <3

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1. How to get into Open Source Isabel Costa @isabelcmdcosta
2. Contribute to Open Source?
3. Here’s an example!
7. Source: https://github.com/scala-exercises/exercises-fpinscala/pull/55
9. Agenda ➔ Finding Projects & Issues ➔ Ways to contribute ➔ Motivations ➔ Be aware of ➔ Demo of a contribution
10. Finding Projects & Issues
11. Finding Projects • Any project you already use? a software library you use • Look into organizations and communities • Look up on GitHub Search/Explore by topic
12. Projects & Organizations
13. Initiatives
14. Finding Issues • Look up issues tab ◦ look up the “first timers only” or “good first issue” label • Look at the roadmap of the project • Come up with your issues ◦ bug that can be solved ◦ a documentation improvement (e.g.: typo) ◦ review PRs
15. Ways to contribute
16. Contribute as ... developer QA tester technical writer designer project manager interested person advocate
17. Coding @isabelcmdcosta
18. Design Source: https://github.com/anitab-org/anit ab-org.github.io/pull/41
19. Design @isabelcmdcosta
20. Documentation @isabelcmdcosta
21. Documentation @isabelcmdcosta
22. @isabelcmdcosta
23. Quality Assurance Source: https://github.com/anitab-org/men torship-backend/issues/562
24. Quality Assurance
25. Feedback Source: http://systers-opensource.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-importance-of-feedback.html @isabelcmdcosta
26. Other... @isabelcmdcosta
27. Other... @isabelcmdcosta
29. Motivations
30. Motivations • create portfolio of work • show your skills as a professional ◦ communication, technical abilities, collaboration, code review, etc • contribute back to the community • volunteer for causes • improve current skills and learn new ones • career changer? Use this!
31. Be aware of...
32. Be aware of... • is project active? • are maintainers responsive? • time to get merged... • is the project community welcoming? • does it match what you are looking for? • do things transparently and public • what is the process of contribution? • code of conduct, reporting guidelines • communities may behave in differents
34. Examples of contributions • QA review and good description: https://github.com/anitab-org/mentorship-backend/pull/1134 • Added a portuguese project to README: https://github.com/OldMetalmind/PortugueseOpenSourceProjects/pull/1 • Contributed to a “corporate” project and signed a CLA: https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/2245 • Created my own opportunity: https://github.com/systers/systers.github.io/pull/168 • Continued someone else work: https://github.com/getodk/collect/pull/1986 • Fixed a link for WWC Cloud repo: https://github.com/WomenWhoCode/WWCodeCloud/pull/7
35. Demonstration
36. Steps for contributing • Create fork of repository • Clone repository locally • Change files • Commit and push to remote • Create Pull Request To change design channel link text on README: https://github.com/anitab-org/anitab-org.github.io
37. Tips and tricks • Find established organization at https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ • To fetch upstream: https://github.com/isabelcosta/mentorship-backend • To approve & merge: https://github.com/anitab-org/anitab-org.github.io/pull/247
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