Resources for Open Source Movement

Main course resources and related materials

Getting started, or “How to contribute” type articles

• Github’s guide on contributing to open source
• Talk Python to Me podcast
• Linear Digressions podcast on hacktoberfest
• 20-minute talk on first PR https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/T613
  • same talk on yt? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTi9ALZxx2E&app=desktop
• an “Imposter Syndrome Disclaimer” that one can add to your repos
• awesome-beginners
• Google Code-in competition

History

Articles on the history of open source

• Curious Minds podcast–Interview with Richard Stallman on the History of Free and Open Source Software, and part two
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-source_software
• https://www.longsight.com/learning-center/history-open-source
• http://opencommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=libr_pubs
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Coase’s Penguin
• this top 9 list plus the other things from the comments:
  • Cathedral and the Bazaar, as above
  • Debian instead of Ubuntu
  • OpenOffice?
  • Sun and Java
  • red hat? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/history-red-hat-software-its-role-open-source-movement-evan-kirstel/
• Useful book on the history? http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/index.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_movement
• awful timeline website but maybe has some useful things https://create.piktochart.com/output/2385023-history-of-the-open-source-movem
• linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#The_creation_of_Linux
• google and android?

What to include in your repo

• example.py for numpy
• Add more!

Debate re: financing/managing open source

• https://twitter.com/adamrackis/status/932291293442691073
• https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/907018758396325888
• https://twitter.com/adamrackis/status/931195056479965185
• https://medium.com/open-collective/sustainoss-the-report-881e4b12d180
• https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/please-dont-tell-me-you-want-to-be-the-next-red-hat/
• https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/09/the-money-in-open-source-software/

git internals

• https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside-out
• MAYBE? https://www.sbf5.com/%7Ecduan/technical/git/

learning git

• Try git–HW
• Software Carpentry git introduction
• Learn git Branching–assumes a basic understanding, draws the visual graphs without actually working with any source code.
• https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
• Git for ages 4 and up long youtube video
• github’s “flight rules for git”
• The git Parable–a fun trip through the uses of git.

Adjacent Learning

• Mastering markdown

PRs

• jake vdp live sklearn pr
• jake vdp example pr
• Blog post detailing a simple PR to a markdown reader

Ideas

• Clean up harsh English in READMEs
• awesome-beginners, a list of awesome beginner-friendly projects
• http://up-for-grabs.net/, a curated list of tasks intended for new contributors
• https://www.codetriage.com/
• https://github.com/showcases/great-for-new-contributors
• http://www.firsttimersonly.com/
• python3-ify a library (maintain a new fork)
  • [An article[(https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html] on porting code from Python 2 to 3

Extra

managing an oss project

• building community article
• safia blog: evangilizing for OSS
• CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• making your library more beginner friendly, for example including a CONTRIBUTING.md

package python

• https://packaging.python.org/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/5ww44y/a_simple_guide_for_python_packaging_small_things/
• http://veekaybee.github.io/2017/09/26/python-packaging/
• https://github.com/kennethreitz/setup.py