Getting Started with Open Source (Virtual Workshop)
Details
š£ Interested in contributing to open source? Not sure where to start? Start this month at our Hacktoberfest event with Monica Powell!
ā 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
š» What you'll need before the workshop:
- a GitHub account https://github.com/
š¤ 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.
Zoom link will be shared on meetup page & by email closer to the event date
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