How to choose an open-source project
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The presentation by Susan Tan discusses how to choose an open-source project and highlights the underrepresentation of women in the free and open-source software community. Key factors for selecting a project include community activity, familiarity with technology, quality of documentation, and available resources for new contributors. The talk also emphasizes the importance of gaining access to diverse codebases and contributing back to the community.
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