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Welcome to OpenHatch newsletter number 13.

Thanking our Open Source Comes to Campus sponsors for the past year:

OpenHatch is lucky to be supported by organizations and people who believe in our mission of growing the open source community through active outreach. We’re taking this moment, halfway into the year, to share our gratitude for the companies that have made that work possible.

These companies include Puppet Labs, Stripe, 10gen, Google, OmniTI, Dreamwidth Studios, Rackspace, Kitware, and Nokia. Please help more join them! See our sponsor prospectus, and send an email to hello@openhatch.org!

New projects in the OpenHatch volunteer opportunity finder

We’re constantly adding new projects to our volunteer opportunity finder. Two recent additions:

• CityGenerator, “a tool for generating a setting for Fantasy Roleplaying games”, links to a wonderfully detailed list of ways to contribute for both developers and non-developers.
• MCServer, an open source Minecraft server with “better performance than vanilla”, would love some help updating its wiki. Here is also an interesting Reddit thread with suggestions for inviting new contributors to that project.

Behind the scenes

On August 8, we had a release planning meeting led by IShadowed on IRC, discussing some development goals for the month. Here are minutes from that meeting. If you’re interested in helping, we’ll announce the next meeting on the devel mailing list (and quiet lurkers are also welcome to join and listen in on meetings).

New mailing list for detailed Open Source Comes to Campus event planning, which was previously done mostly via private emails. Our events list is still the go-to place for discussing and sharing lessons and questions on running outreach events!

OpenHatchy but not OpenHatch things around the web

“18% of attendees and 21% of speakers at #GUADEC are women! We are working hard to extend the openness of our community to more people.“

So, You Want to Run a Young Coders Class? by Katie Cunningham has lots of great detail on doing just that, pointed out by Sumana Harihareswara.

Read several good links submitted to /r/openhatch and submit OpenHatchy links you find. One just submitted: Interview with Alex “Skud” Bayley, founder of Growstuff and social justice activist:

If technology is going to change the world for the better, it has to involve all kinds of people. That doesn’t happen by accident. You have to work at it.

Also, thanks to the moderators of /r/opensource for adding OpenHatch to the sidebar of that popular reddit.

Get involved

You can help write this newsletter! The September newsletter will be edited at htmlpad may be previewed there as well. Join our publicity list or hop on #openhatch with suggestions and questions.

Thanks to Britta Gustafson for contributing to this edition!

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