Getting Started With Open Source
Interested in contributing to open source? Not sure where to start? Start this month at our Hacktober event with Monica Powell.
Topics the workshop will cover:
- What is Open Source? What are some of the different roles within Open Source?
- Best practices for contributing to open source
- How to identify opportunities to contribute to open source
- Opening an open source pull request
What you'll need before the workshop: a GitHub account https://github.com/
About our speaker: Monica Powell is a software engineer who is passionate about making contributing to open-source more approachable and building community. She currently works at Newsela as a software engineer building educational software and was recently selected to be an inaugural GitHub Star based on her community involvement.