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How to get into Open Source Isabel Costa @isabelcmdcosta

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Contribute to Open Source?

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Here’s an example!

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Source: https://github.com/scala-exercises/exercises-fpinscala/pull/55

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Agenda ➔ Finding Projects & Issues ➔ Ways to contribute ➔ Motivations ➔ Be aware of ➔ Demo of a contribution

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Finding Projects & Issues

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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

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Projects & Organizations

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Initiatives

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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

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Ways to contribute

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Contribute as ... developer QA tester technical writer designer project manager interested person advocate

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Coding @isabelcmdcosta

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Design Source: https://github.com/anitab-org/anit ab-org.github.io/pull/41

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Design @isabelcmdcosta

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Documentation @isabelcmdcosta

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Documentation @isabelcmdcosta

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@isabelcmdcosta

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Quality Assurance Source: https://github.com/anitab-org/men torship-backend/issues/562

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Quality Assurance

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

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Other... @isabelcmdcosta

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Other... @isabelcmdcosta

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Motivations

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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!

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Be aware of...

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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

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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

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Demonstration

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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

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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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isabelcosta.github.io Thank you! Make the most of your GitHub profile: youtube.com/watch?v=t5E1ustJEGU @isabelcmdcosta github.com/isabelcosta