Contributing to OpenSource

These are decks for a talk that I did at the SheCode Africa Community Monthly Meetup.

Transcript

1. By: Jacquiline Gitau Contributing to Open Source
2. Agenda Introduction Why contribute to OS Anatomy of an OS Project Resources Topics Covered What to consider Project Checklist Types of Licences Examples of places to contribute
3. What is OS Project It’s a project whose source code is readily available to anyone to inspect, modify and enhance.
4. Why Contribute to OS To learn and Grow Build a Portfolio Community and Networking Solve real-world Problems Improve software Recognition and Respect
5. What to consider Have the right Mindset Choose a programming language Find the right project
6. Anatomy of an OS Project
7. The person/s or organization that created the project Author Types of People 1 2 3 4 The person/s with administrative rights over the repo Owner Responsible for managing the project Maintainers Everyone who has contributed to the project Contributors People who use the project/ Software Community Members 5
8. Project Documentation Every OS Project must have one. LICENCES Explains the type of contributions needed and how the process works. CONTRIBUTING It’s an instruction manual that welcomes new community members to the project. README Sets ground rules for participants’ behaviour associated and helps to facilitate a friendly, welcoming environment. CODE_OF_CONDUCT
9. Tools to organise discussions Where people discuss issues related to the project. Issue Tracker Channels used to have discussions on the project. Discussions Where people discuss and review changes that are in progress Pull-Requests Used for casual conversation, collaboration, and quick exchanges. (Slack, discord, etc) Chat channels
10. Project Checklist
11. Meets the definition of OS 1. Does it have a license?
12. 2. The project actively accepts contributors Look at the commit activity on the main branch When was the latest commit How many contributions does the project have? How often do people commit?
13. 3. Look at the Project’s Issues How many open issues are there? Do maintainers respond quickly to issues when they are opened? Is there active discussion on the issues? Are the issues recent? Are issues getting closed?
14. 4. Look at the Project’s Pull Requests(PR) How many open pull requests are there? Do maintainers respond quickly to pull requests when they are opened? Is there an active discussion on the pull requests? Are the pull requests recent? How recently were any pull requests merged?
15. 5. Project is welcoming Do the maintainers respond helpfully to questions in issues? Are people friendly in the issues, discussion forum, and chat? Do pull requests get reviewed? Do maintainers thank people for their contributions?
16. Types of Licences GNU General Public License (GPL) MIT License Apache License BSD Licenses Mozilla Public License (MPL) Creative Commons Licenses
17. Examples of places to contribute GitHub Explore Open Source Friday First Timers Only CodeTriage 24 Pull Requests Up For Grabs First Contributions SourceSort OpenSauced
18. A Handbook Guide for beginners How to contribute to Open Source An Ultimate Guide to opensource Contribution DroidconKE App Resources 1 2 3 4
19. Thank you!