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Welcome to OpenHatch newsletter number 15.

For Ada Lovelace Day, we profiled 5 of the women who have helped us organize and run our Open Source Comes to Campus (OSCTC) events.

Reports on two recent OSCTC events: Indiana University and Purdue University, and another excellent Infrequently Asked Questions about open source post based on actual discussion with students at the Indiana University event.

Photos from several OSCTC events.

We have lots of OSCTC materials in a git repository. Report or help resolve an OSCTC issue.

New projects in the OpenHatch volunteer opportunity finder

• arkOS, “a project to help users self-host their websites, email, files and more”.
• Navit, “a crossplatform and modular opensource navigation system, using OpenStreetMap for offline routing”.

Behind the scenes

We held a release planning meeting on October 8 on IRC, and we followed that up with a new idea: holding “office hours”, a scheduled informal check-in on IRC once a week so that multiple contributors are likely to be online at the same time. This was fun, and it turned out to be a good chance for potential new contributors to talk about their ideas and ask questions. We’ll keep announcing these meetings on the devel mailing list for anyone interested.

OpenHatchy but not OpenHatch things around the web

Thoughtful post by Kaia Dekker on the XOXO conference and diversity, including a “wishlist of eleven men of color and women that I would love to see at XOXO next year, or really, see at any tech/arts/maker conference I go to.” We’re tickled to read the first name on that list:

Asheesh Laroia is a coder and co-founder of Open Hatch, an organization that helps people learn to create and contribute to open source and collaborative software projects.

Dale Harvey on problems getting started in open source.

Also check out links submitted to /r/openhatch, and add your finds!

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