OpenHatch newsletter, December 2013
Welcome to OpenHatch newsletter number 17.
Thank you to everyone who helped make open source more welcoming and diverse in 2013! Our blog in December was filled with posts motivating financial support for our Open Source Comes to Campus program in 2014 (and its website got a shiny new redesign). There is still time to donate while it is 2013 somewhere in the world!
- Happy holidays from OpenHatch!
- Congrats to friends of OpenHatch at PyCon 2014!
- Ready, Set, Contribute: a handbook for preparing your open source project for events
- What contributing to open source can give back to you
- How I found an open source project for me (and why to support OpenHatch)
- Open Source Comes to Campus
- Meet Mandar, an OpenHatch contributor!
- Teaching Open Source in Chicago
- Why I care about OpenHatch: changing people’s relationship with software
- Matching your Open Source Comes to Campus donations, starting today
- Support OpenHatch!
New projects in the OpenHatch volunteer opportunity finder
- BountyFunding, a new crowdfunding platform for sponsoring features and bugfixes in open source projects.
- Cubes, a “Python framework and OLAP HTTP server for easy development of reporting applications and aggregate browsing of multi-dimensionally modeled data”.
- GlitterGallery, a way to “share, collect feedback on, and view/manage design iterations” (under development), with a cool comic in its readme to explain the project.
- jsDelivr, a “a free CDN (Content Delivery Network) where any web developer can host their files, including CSS, fonts, JavaScript, jQuery plugins, etc.”
OpenHatchy but not OpenHatch things around the web
Jessica McKellar: “Hello from your @PyCon Diversity Outreach Chair. % PyCon talks by women: (2011: 1%), (2012: 7%), (2013: 15%), (2014: 33%). Outreach works.”
Igor Steinmacher is doing research on problems faced by newcomers to open source software:
I am investigating ways to support new Open Source contributors during their first steps in the project. My final goal is to verify what kind of tooling is appropriate to support the newcomers overcoming their difficulties when they are willing to contribute to the project.
I want to talk to people who experienced problems when onboarding Open Source Software projects. I am interested both in people that faced issues when trying to contribute and could not make it and those who just started their contribution to an Open Source project.
Get in touch with Igor at the link.
Findings from the first Wikimedia train the trainer event in India.
A program that pairs students with open source projects for university credit.
How Harvey Mudd transformed its computer science program and nearly closed its gender gap.
Also check out links submitted to /r/openhatch, and add your finds!
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Thanks to Britta Gustafson for contributing to this edition!