Why, Where and How to contribute to Open Source

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Why, Where and How to contribute to Open Source Isabel Costa | @isabelcmdcosta

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Who is this for?

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What does Open Source mean?

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Why

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Learn Why

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Learn Practise skills Why

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Learn Build portfolio Practise skills Why

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Learn Build portfolio Practise skills Volunteerism Why

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Learn Build portfolio Practise skills Volunteerism Give back Why

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Learn Build portfolio Practise skills Volunteerism Give back Why

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Where

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Where ● Which platform to use? ● Which projects to contribute to? ● What about communities?

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Projects

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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?

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Communities

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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?

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Portuguese Open Source projects fogos.pt Política para todos VOST Portugal

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Initiatives

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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

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How

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What can you contribute with?

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Did you know you can contribute with more than code?

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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 ● ...

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You can contribute as a ...

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You can contribute as a ... developer QA tester technical writer designer project manager interested person

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What are the steps to contribute?

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Find a problem solve Work on it Submit your work

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Coding

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Fork Clone Work Commit & Push Submit PR Communicate!

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Design

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Design

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Documentation

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Documentation

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Quality Assurance

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Feedback Credit: http://systers-opensource.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-importance-of-feedback.html

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Other...

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Other...

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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

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Nice to know ... opensource.guide

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Thank you! @isabelcmdcosta @isabelcosta isabelcosta.github.io tiny.cc/DFLXIsabelOS