Deconstructing Open Source Contributions
summary
Explains concrete methods used at Open Source Comes to Campus—27 on-campus events (nine this year) and an 800-project aggregator—to turn contributing barriers into repeatable processes: a four-step finding a project workflow, annotated issues listing required skills and start points, checklist-style setup docs (virtualenv, dependencies, build/test), live setup Sprints that fixed two dozen issues on one project, and a new Merge Stories site for sharing contribution narratives. Practical, operational fixes and templates are given.
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chapters (31)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:20Who am I
- 0:34Open Source Comes to Campus
- 0:58Tutorials
- 1:15Contributions Workshop
- 1:33Why is contributing so frustrating
- 2:02Key themes
- 2:29Outline
- 2:44Obstacles
- 3:05Finding a project
- 3:32Preelecting projects
- 3:56Finding projects
- 4:18Evaluation
- 6:25Understanding Issues
- 7:09Issue Aggregator
- 8:05Annotation
- 9:07Setting up the development environment
- 9:26Obstacles to contributing
- 10:37Making contributions easier
- 11:19Setup sprints
- 12:08Selfdoubt
- 12:21Open Source
- 13:49Career Panel
- 14:33Merge Stories
- 15:11Role Model
- 17:55Make implicit knowledge explicit
- 18:35Empower newcomers
- 19:55Activities
- 29:59Questions
- 36:00How did you learn
- 42:20Sharing time
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