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Open Source Series: Licensing, Version Control, Contributing, and Beyond

Everything a first-time open-source contributor needs for Hacktoberfest.

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Type
Workshop
Category
Open Source
Level
Intermediate
Duration
120 min
Language
English
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Abstract

A Hacktoberfest workshop covering the full open-source on-ramp: what open source and Hacktoberfest are, software licensing, version control with Git and GitHub, and how to make your first contributions, plus the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

Outline

  1. 01Hacktoberfest and the open-source ecosystem
  2. 02Software licensing, what you can and can't do
  3. 03Version control with Git and GitHub
  4. 04Forking, branching, and contributing via pull requests
  5. 05Claiming the GitHub Student Developer Pack

Key takeaways

  • A license is what makes code legally usable, choose deliberately
  • Contributing is a workflow (fork, branch, PR) anyone can learn
  • The Student Developer Pack is a huge, free head start

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