Journey to Open Source

A beginner-friendly guide for all the Open Source enthusiasts to help them get started with Open Source development through Git and GitHub.

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1. LET'S BEGIN JOURNEY TO OPEN SOURCE A beginner friendly session for all the Open Source enthusiasts
2. Topics that we'll be covering THIS SESSION WILL HELP YOU TO KNOW MORE ABOUT Open Source - Addressing what, why & how Git & GitHub - How to get started? Opportunities in Open Source - Learn while you earn Some good practices to follow Gearing up for Hacktoberfest'21
3. Ankita Saloni A LITTLE SNEAK PEAK INTO MY LIFE Google DSC Lead'21 Generation Google APAC Scholar'21 GitHub Campus Expert Machine Learning Intern @Omdena Author
4. In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. MORE THAN JUST A WORD LINUS TORVALDS
5. Open Source WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE? Open-source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance. Programmers who have access to a computer program's source code can improve that program by adding features to it or fixing parts that don't always work correctly.
6. Why Open Source? Build wonderful projects where people can see, modify and use it BUILD Collaborate with developers and coders across the globe COLLABORATE Improve your skills and upgrade yourself by contributing to open source IMPROVE Empower others and unleash the real power of open source. EMPOWER
7. Open Source Softwares
8. Let's talk about Git ALL THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
9. Why Git? WHY YOU SHOULD SWITCH TO GIT? Collaborate Easy to manage Share on the go
10. Glossary REPO Also known as 'Repository', it is a directory where you can keep your code files along with text files and images. BRANCH Branches allow you to develop features, fix bugs, or safely experiment with new ideas in a contained area of your repository. CLONE Cloning helps you to create a local copy of the code provided by the developer. ISSUE Issues help you to keep a track of all the tasks, enhancements, and bugs for your projects.
11. Glossary MASTER Following the naming convention for branches, the name of the default branch in Git is 'master'. COMMIT A commit is an individual change to a file and works like a snapshot of your repository. MERGE It's a way of putting a forked history back together again where the commits are combined into one commit and merged into the default branch. PULL REQUEST Pull requests let you tell others about changes you've pushed to a branch in a repository on GitHub.
12. Ready to ace? OPPORTUNITIES IN OPEN SOURCE GIRLSCRIPT SUMMER OF CODE A 3-month long open source project under Girlscript India GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE A global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source. OUTREACHY PROGRAMS An initiative that provides paid, remote internships to people of under represented groups. FOSSASSIA CODEHEAT Codeheat is a coding contest for FOSSASIA projects on GitHub. ANY PROJECT WITH OPEN ISSUES ON GITHUB That's all you need to get started
13. WHO DOESN'T LOVES SWAGS?? Besides all the perks, you get lots and lots of really cool swags to showcase that you are a part of this rich open-source culture.
14. Some Dos & Don'ts DON'T SPAM Make meaningful contributions. USE LABELS Stick to the prescribed format and use labels wherever required. CLEAN & READABLE CODE It should be well-written and bug-free. DON'T BE AFRAID! Open Source can be daunting at first. But trust me, you got this.
15. Let's enter into GitHub Universe
16. GitHub YOUR ONE-STOP GUIDE FOR OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT GitHub is a distributed version-control platform where users can collaborate on or adopt open source code projects, fork code, share ideas and more.
17. Student Developer Pack YOUR TECHNICAL TREASURE The Student Developer Pack has been designed to give students free access to the best developer tools in one place with a value of more than $200k.
18. GitHub Campus Expert YOUR BESTFRIEND AT CAMPUS Campus Experts are student leaders that strive to build diverse and inclusive spaces to learn skills, share their experiences, and build projects together.
19. HACKTOBERFEST Hacktoberfest is a month long virtual festival event to celebrate open source contributions which happens every year in October.
20. Any questions?
21. Thank You!
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