Why, Where and How to contribute to Open Source

In this talk I will provide my insights over why it can be helpful to your career to contribute to Open Source, where you can get started with it (OS communities, initiatives, projects, etc) and how you can actually contribute in multiple ways to Open Source, whether you're a developer, designer, tester... or just a curious person who wants to contribute to a project you care about.

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1. Why, Where and How to contribute to Open Source Isabel Costa | @isabelcmdcosta
2. Who is this for?
3. What does Open Source mean?
4. Why
5. Learn Why
6. Learn Practise skills Why
7. Learn Build portfolio Practise skills Why
8. Learn Build portfolio Practise skills Volunteerism Why
9. Learn Build portfolio Practise skills Volunteerism Give back Why
10. Learn Build portfolio Practise skills Volunteerism Give back Why
11. Where
12. Where • Which platform to use? • Which projects to contribute to? • What about communities?
13. Projects
14. Be aware of ... • Is the project active or inactive/archived? • How responsive and welcoming are the maintainers? • Are there beginner issues or any other available? • Does the project have a License? • Does the project have Code of Conduct? • Is the project well Documented? • Contribution guidelines?
15. Communities
16. Be aware of ... • Is the community beginner friendly? ◦ Do they have Code of Conduct & Reporting Guidelines • Is the community transparent? • Is the community inclusive? • Do they promote open communication? • Is it open for every type of contributions?
17. Portuguese Open Source projects fogos.pt Política para todos VOST Portugal
18. Initiatives
19. Where to find these ... • Projects you use or care about • Communities “well” established or organized ◦ GSoC has a list of communities • Through initiatives: Hacktoberfest, 24 Pull Requests … • Other: Up for grabs, Code Triage
20. How
21. What can you contribute with?
22. Did you know you can contribute with more than code?
23. What can you contribute with? • Implement new features or fix bugs • UI/UX Designs and Wireframes • Solution Architecture • Outreach / Research • Documentation • Testing and reporting issues • Help others contribute • Review work from others • Give feedback • Mentor for Open Source initiatives • ...
24. You can contribute as a ...
25. You can contribute as a ... developer QA tester technical writer designer project manager interested person
26. What are the steps to contribute?
27. Find a problem solve Work on it Submit your work
28. Coding
29. Fork Clone Work Commit & Push Submit PR Communicate!
31. Design
32. Design
33. Documentation
34. Documentation
35. Quality Assurance
36. Feedback Credit: http://systers-opensource.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-importance-of-feedback.html
37. Other...
38. Other...
40. My personal examples • My LICENCE link change of Elastic UI framework • Reported an issue and ended up solving (systers.io) • Open Data Kit PR (I continued someone else work) • Code Review I did to fix typos • Added a portuguese open source project
41. Nice to know ... opensource.guide
42. Thank you! @isabelcmdcosta @isabelcosta isabelcosta.github.io tiny.cc/DFLXIsabelOS