‣ “month-long celebration of
open source software”
‣ Open to everyone
‣ Five pull requests must be made to
GitHub-hosted repositories
‣ You can sign-up anytime between
October 1 and October 31
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Contribute to
Open Source
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‣ Improve your skills
‣ Meet people
‣ Find mentors and teach others
‣ Build a reputation (and a career)
‣ Learn people skills
‣ Feeling of empowerment
Why?
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‣ Self-interest
‣ Self-expression
‣ Improve the world
‣ Hormones
Credit: Rasmus Lerdorf, “Good Chemistry,” Sunshine PHP 2015
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‣ Plan events, workshops, conferences
‣ Are you a designer?
‣ Write documentation, tutorials,
translations
‣ Play the “project manager”
‣ Answer questions on Stack Overflow
‣ Review code, mentor others
Coding not required
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‣ Who is involved in this project?
Get the lay of the land
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‣ Who is involved in this project?
‣ Project documentation
Get the lay of the land
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‣ Who is involved in this project?
‣ Project documentation
‣ Use the tools provided by the project
Get the lay of the land
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‣ Start with a project you use
‣ Use a resource to discover projects
Find a project
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‣ Is the project open source?
‣ Does it actively accept contributions?
‣ Is the project welcoming?
Before you contribute
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‣ Effective communication is key!
Contributing
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‣ Give context
‣ Do your homework
‣ Keep requests short & direct
‣ Keep communication public
‣ Ask questions (but be patient)
‣ Respect decisions
‣ Keep it classy
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‣ Effective communication is key!
‣ Opening an issue
Contributing
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‣ Report an error you can’t solve
‣ Discuss a high-level topic or idea
‣ Propose a new feature
When to open an issue…
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‣ Comment to let people you’re working on
an issue
‣ If the issue is old, ask for confirmation
before beginning work
‣ If you opened an issue and later figured it
out, comment on the issue and close it
Issue tips…
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‣ Effective communication is key!
‣ Opening an issue
‣ Opening a pull request
Contributing
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‣ Submit trivial fixes
‣ Start work on a contribution that was
asked for, or that you’ve already
discussed, in an issue
When to open a PR…
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‣ Fork the repository
How to submit a PR
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‣ Fork the repository
‣ Clone & create a branch for your edits
How to submit a PR
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‣ Fork the repository
‣ Clone & create a branch for your edits
‣ Reference any relevant issues
How to submit a PR
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‣ Fork the repository
‣ Clone & create a branch for your edits
‣ Reference any relevant issues
‣ If applicable, include before/after
screenshots
‣ Test your changes!
How to submit a PR
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‣ Fork the repository
‣ Clone & create a branch for your edits
‣ Reference any relevant issues
‣ If applicable, include before/after
screenshots
‣ Test your changes!
‣ Contribute in the style of the project
How to submit a PR