How to Contribute to Open Source

How to Contribute to Open Source

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  How to Contributeto Open Source Projects “The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule.” – Philippe Kahn
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  Open Source software forwhich the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified
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  “When I firstgot into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be. For me, open source is a moral thing.” – Matt Mullenweg (WP) “In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.” – Linus Torvalds (Git) “The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people.” – Larry Wall (Perl)
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  Languages Ruby, Java, Python,Elixir, Swift, Perl, C, PHP, Clojure, R, Haskell, and many more… Companies Google, Facebook, Twitter, Github, RedHat, Salesforce, DigitalOcean, GE, NYSE, Chevron, Mastercard, LinkedIn, Mozilla Foundation, Square
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  Top languages onGithub over time
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  Government • 18f -civic consultancy for the federal gov’t • Indian Government recently adopted Open-Source
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  Why should youcare? • Create the future: tools we use daily • Stand on the Shoulders of Giants: reading code will make you a better developer • Experience: contribute to software that most developers and companies use • Network: almost every company you want to work for uses or is influenced by open source software
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  How can youhelp? • Mild: spread knowledge, answer questions - blog, tweet, stackoverflow, user group • Medium: fix docs, report bugs - api examples & project wikis, submit pull requests • Hot: fix pull requests, check code coverage - github, codetriage, openhatch
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  Where do youstart? Start by exploring a codebase you use… • Discuss the good and bad • What software impresses you? • Where are you interested in working?
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  Process Github => Readme=> Contributing Page 1. policies, testing, style guide 2. set-up scripts 3. fork repo and run test suite 4. read codebase, become familiar Practice reading code (don’t be intimidated), figure out what’s going on
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  Resources Forums & MailingLists • http://www.codetriage.com/ or https://openhatch.org/ Search Company Pages • https://developers.google.com/open-source/projects Language Docs • http://documenting-ruby.org/