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Welcome to OpenHatch newsletter number 10.

Starting this month, as a way to indicate what we have in common, and to encourage organizers to have more conversations with each other, we’re inviting outreach events to flock together as OpenHatch-affiliated events. Read more about our first batch of affiliated events and the history that created the principles behind them. If you run a newcomer-friendly tech event, consider joining the flock!

We had a really fun and successful PyCon; read all about it (you can watch the Scaling Community Diversity Outreach talk there too!).

Infrequently Asked Questions:

At each Open Source Comes to Campus event, participants ask unique, thought-provoking questions. We decided to write down these questions and answer them more fully on our blog.

OpenHatch ran a workshop at UMass Amherst. 32 participants made contributions to HexBog, the OpenHatch website, JMonkey Engine, BitCoin, PsychoPy, K-9, and GNOME Shell.

We re-designed the Events mailing list info page; we think it’s now the snazziest, bootstrap-iest Mailman list info page in the world!

OSCON and Open Source Bridge talks by OpenHatchers

This summer in Portland, the community-run Open Source Bridge conference brings people together in June, and the enormous OSCON does the same in July.

At Open Source Bridge, we’ll be training the trainers and talking about quantitative community management. Check out the entire list of exciting talks, and especially the diversity in open source panel!

At OSCON, Asheesh is leading a session on Quantitative Community Management and also giving a technical talk on Scrapy. Benetech’s SocialCoding4Good will have a booth at the non-profit Pavilion, and Asheesh will be there as well. Stop by!

OpenHatchy but not OpenHatch things around the web

Women in Free Software & Culture in India online community launched.

On Mozilla Hacks blog, How to Spread The Word About Your Code does not cover (do we have a link?) how to make your project welcoming to new contributors, but it complements our advice nicely: if nobody ever hears of your project, there will be nobody to be feel welcome.

Nik Molnar blogs New Contributor? Jump In! encouraging open source projects to tag bugs that are good for new contributors; in comments many projects doing variations on this practice are noted, including one from Josh Matthews: “If you aren’t familiar with OpenHatch, I think you’re in for a deightful surprise.” We hope so! But it is also a delightful surprise to see independent invention and implementation of a great idea.

Valorie Zimmerman blogs Tea and cookies for your new team members on welcoming contributors to KDE projects.

Open Source Career Taster Days happened this month in London: “A series of three one day workshops for women returners aimed at raising awareness of Open Source development as a dual skillset or second career.”

Get involved

Read about our new affiliated events designation, and join our Events mailing list to think about how you can plan your own!

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