Students like you around the world are gaining valuable
experience, connections, and skills by coding, testing, and
writing for free software projects like Firefox, WordPress,
Wikipedia's backend code, and SAGE.
You do not need to know how to program to contribute to
free software. You can contribute code, but also original art,
testing, documentation, web design, or anything else. We want to
teach you how to join them.
The events
On Tuesday, March 19 and Thursday, March
21 evenings, we want to bring you up to speed on open
source projects and help you contribute to a real community.
On Tuesday, we'll teach you about open source licensing,
collaboration tools, and how free software projects are
organized.
On Thursday, we'll help you make contributions to open source
projects.
And throughout the two evenings, we'll get to know you,
and talk with you about opportunities for students in open
source.
Space is pretty limited and we want to prepare to meet your
needs. Please sign up in advance by filling out
this form. Don't delay!
Or you can scroll past the form and keep reading...
More about open source
Free, open source software is software that is shared freely and
available to build upon. It is a great way to apply your skills to
real-world projects and social causes. You can participate by writing
or reviewing code, answering users' questions, translating the
interface to another language, making video tutorials to help new
users, and myriad other ways. Open source software is often produced
by lots of people collaborating across time and space, and this event
specially welcomes newcomers to that style of development.
Open source participation is one way to gain real-world skills and
make connections that will last you through your career. Volunteer
staff will include professionals and academics who use open source
daily.
Who we are
The event is put together by
Asheesh Laroia
and Shauna Gordon-McKeon
of OpenHatch, with the help
of CSUA. A shout-out to AWE and WICSE members; please
join us!
We're a non-profit that helps people get involved in open
source. You can learn
more.
Get in touch
If you want to get in touch with us, the best thing to do is to email us. Try this: hello@openhatch.org
Want to chat ahead of the event? Ask questions on #openhatch on
FreeNode. Consider using IRC your first open source
accomplishment :) Click here for web chat.
Sign up
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