Making Your First Open-Source Contribution

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A lightning talk aiming to make the path a bit clearer for open-source enthusiasts who would like to make their first contribution but are not sure where to start, using my first patch as an example. Transcript: http://www.jpichon.net/blog/2013/02/talk-transcript-first-open-source-contribution/ Presented at Irish Hackerspace Week in August 2011. Presented at Ireland Girl Geek Dinners in January 2013. Presented at theDoctConf in June 2013.

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Making Your FirstOpen-Source Contribution

Julie Pichonhttp://www.jpichon.net

From 0 to 1

Everyonecan contribute

Where to start?

http://openhatch.org

«OpenHatch is an open source community aiming to help

newcomers find their way into free software projects.»

Contributor guidelines

the contributor guidelines

Read

Usethe bug tracker

the contributor guidelines

the contributor guidelines

Buildthe software

Findthe bug

Fixit!

Submityour patch

Bug tracker

Build

Find and fix

Submit

Wait

Never enough people

Never enough time

http://openhatch.org

Questions?