Our Greenville Repository: An Overview of Projects You Can Join

This past October, the Greenville Women Who Code network opened up our Github Repository to the world by participating in Hacktoberfest 2023 through multiple projects over the course of the month. We did this by creating Issues that ranged in complexity for beginners to more advanced developers to dive in and participate, while members of our team provided projects and pull request reviews. Join us during this session to learn about what we did, where we did well and what we plan to improve, and which projects have continued forward that you can still join today.

Why you should attend:

• If you are new to Git or working in repositories, this session will give you an idea of how new developers were able to join in with minimal coding knowledge to complete their first pull requests.
• If you are new to organizing open source projects, you can learn about the kinds of project and documentation that the team set up in the repository. We’ll also share what was successful (and less great!) so that you have solid tips for starting your own collaborative projects or leading community open source events.

About the Speaker:
Jen Bauer is a lifelong technologist, builder, data storyteller, and educator. She is currently a QA Engineer at Hungryroot, where she challenges internal APIs with Postman and her automated test suites. You may have seen her completing API testing challenges (Ministry of Testing’s Test.bash(); 2022 or 30 Days of Postman for Developers), attending conferences, or otherwise sharing her tips and tricks about QA, SQL, and spreadsheets on YouTube or at live events. When she is not exploring what’s up next in the world of tech, she enjoys playing and collecting video games across Nintendo consoles (spanning the Famicom to the Switch and all those in between) and delights in sharing these with her daughter, husband, cats, and good friends