In-person Student Open Source Bootcamp, at the Microsoft Reactor, Redmond, WA

Join up for this free 2 day workshop to grow your GitHub skills, learn about open source, and make your first open source software contribution.

This event is designed for students including those in college or enrolled in a boot camp. To help ensure spaces are not taken by folks who will not be able to attend in person, we are waitlisting everyone. When you join the waitlist, please answer the two questions and we will be in touch shortly to add you to the event.

Day 1: Saturday, August 13th
Introduction to Git and GitHub
Start your open source journey by learning about Git and GitHub. Get signed up for a GitHub student developer pack, then learn all the basic concepts including repos, cloning, forking, committing code, issues, and raising pull requests.

Breakfast - 9:30AM
Event start - 10:00AM
Event end - 3:00PM

Day 2: Sunday, August 14th
Get started with open source
This day focuses on open source. Learn from experts about what open source is, and how you can contribute. Discover how making open source contributions can help your career, and learn how to discover communities and get involved.

Finally have a go at making your first open source contribution to a public project!

Breakfast - 9:30AM
Event start - 10:00AM
Event end - 3:00PM

Speakers:
Jim Bennett
Jim is a Regional Cloud Advocate focusing on building out and skilling communities in the Pacific North West, with a focus on the Microsoft Reactor in Redmond, Washington. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and is happy he moved to Redmond in time to be locked down at home and not see the office he came to work in, or the places he wanted to visit. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer in the mobile, desktop, and scientific space. He's spoken at conferences and events all around the globe, organized meetup groups and communities, and written a book on mobile development.
He also hates and is allergic to cats, but has a 9-year-old daughter who loves cats, so he has 2 cats.

Sam Wronski
Sam Wronski is a Regional Cloud Advocate at Microsoft focused on empowering the San Francisco area to build awesome things with Azure. Sam has spent years building applications and tooling powered by containers.
He's run the World of Zero channel on YouTube for the past 5 years where he's taught software engineering and game development.

Austin Akers
Austin is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft currently working on the Microsoft Learn platform. Outside of work when he’s not spending time with his wife he contributes to open source, breakdances, train in muay thai and practice with his cello.

Tessa Mero
Tessa is the head of Developer Relations at Appwrite

Wess Cope
Wess is a full stack engineer at Appwrite

Sharif Nasser Kadamani
Sharif is an intern at Microsoft, and a Gold Microsoft Learn student Ambassador

Juan Pablo Flores Cortés
Juan is a student program manager at GitHub Education

Pre-requisites:
This event will be hands on, so bring your laptop!