How to choose an open-source project
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A 5-min PyLadies lightning talk that I gave on Tuesday, 6/25/2013 on how to choose an open source project and what criteria to consider.
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How to choose an open-source project
- 1. How to choose an open source project 5-minute lightning talk June 25, 2013 Susan Tan @ArcTanSusan
- 2. About Me Beginner contributor in ● Django Documentation ● OpenMRS 6/25/2013
- 3. More About Me ● Software Engineer at Flixster ● Hackbright Academy graduate Flixster is hiring! 6/25/2013
- 4. Women in Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) ● In the US today, women represent 25% of all software developers and 18% of students with CS degrees. ● Women are estimated to represent 3% of FOSS contributors. 6/25/2013 Source: Zhurakhinskaya
- 5. Why does it matter? Source: Black Duck6/25/2013
- 6. Personal Motivations ● Access to different code bases: modules, APIs, front-end, database schema ● Freedom to explore new technologies ● The best developers are working in FOSS ● Give back to community
- 7. 6/25/2013 How to pick an interesting project?
- 8. How large and how active is the developer community around potential project? 6/25/2013 Community
- 9. How familiar are you with the tools that the potential project relies on? 6/25/2013 Technology Stack
- 10. How extensive is the documentation both for users and for developers? 6/25/2013 Documentation
- 11. What are the resources available for new contributors? 6/25/2013 Resources
- 12. ● GNOME/FOSS remote internships and Google Summer of Code ● Code Montage ● Open Hatch ● Camille Acey's blog post - "Get Involved in Open Source TODAY!" ● A checklist on how to contribute to an open-source project: http: //labs.openhatch.org/foss-contrib-guide/ ● "Finding an open-source project" by Vanessa Hurst: http://www. slideshare.net/CodeMontage/write-speakcode-finding-an-open- source-project ● Personalized Git Repo recommender: http://gitrec.mortardata.com/ ● An online book: http://open-advice.org/ Resources for New Contributors 6/25/2013
- 13. Cited Works "2013 Future of Open Source." Lecture. Web. Black Duck. Zhurakhinskaya, Marina. "Opening Open Source to Women." Women2.0. Women2.0, 15 May 2013. Web. 23 6/25/2013
- 14. Questions? Comments? Feedback? Talk to me or tweet at me @ArcTanSusan