Getting Started with Open Source

Bridget McErlean, Madhuri Yechuri

Agenda

Introductions

Why Open Source?

Hands-on

Best Practices

Links

Acknowledgement

Why Open Source?

Learn new skills (language, domain) in a practical setting

Free yourself from employer-employee domain affinity

Work with supportive communities

Demonstrate work sample to future employers - avoid scary whiteboard interviews!

Popular Hosting Platforms

GitHub - linux, go, rust compiler

BitBucket - Python 3

SourceForge - gnuplot, hyperic

Let’s get started!

Bridget leads the way..

https://github.com/CodeChix-OpenSource/open-source-intro

Best Practices

Be extra polite to make up for missing face-to-face interaction

Contribute to code reviews

Thank reviewers of your Pull Requests

Finish what you started - minimize hanging branches / Pull Requests

Links

https://github.com/CodeChix-OpenSource/open-source-intro

Bridget: Twitter @zubron, Gmail bridgetmcerlean

Madhuri: Gmail cosmokramer

Acknowledgements

Bridget McErlean

CodeChix

You!