Meet your mentors and fellow students and get your laptop ready for the day.
All attendees go to http://bit.ly/laptop-setup and start setting up while mentors go around to see if anyone got stuck.
Aims to answer the question “What is Open Source?” Aims to familiarize students with tools like IRC, issue trackers, mailing lists, and version control through several activities.
Watch the tools video:
Git is a powerful version control language that allows distributed teams of developers to collaborate on large software projects. A brief workshop will introduce students to the use of this tool.
| Students | Instructors |
- Mentor 1: website https://oh-uhouston-1.github.io/
- Mentor 2: website https://oh-uhouston-2.github.io/
- Mentor 3: website https://oh-uhouston-3.github.io/
- Mentor 4: website https://oh-uhouston-4.github.io/
- Mentor 5: website https://oh-uhouston-5.github.io/
- Mentor 6: website https://oh-uhouston-6.github.io/
Lunch will be provided. Vegetarian, vegan, and other dietary options will be provided. Please contact us if you have any specific needs.
Students will be looking through existing projects, working on issues and contributing solutions. Project leads and mentors will be available to provide assistance throughout the workshop.
What are some kinds of contributions can you make?
- improving install instructions
- reproducing bugs
- increasing accessibility of websites)
- Documentation
- User interface design
- Code review
- Logos and branding
- Translation
- Quality assurance
- Sysadmining
- Website management
- Legal advice
- User support
- Publicity
- Testing
- Community management
- Creating tutorials
- ... and, yes, coding.
- Progress so far
- More opportunities to participate