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ACM@USC

Association for Computing Machinery at the University of South Carolina

Getting Started in Open Source

— Swearingen Engineering Center, room 2A17

Joshua Nelson

This week's talk will be on how to contribute to open source:

  • finding a project
  • deciding what to work on
  • communicating with the maintainers
  • making your first pull request (PR)

I'll use real PR's I've made to projects as examples of what and what not to do. There will be a discussion of how to use common open-source tools like git, markdown, continuous integration (CI) providers, and unit tests as they pertain to contributing to a project.

If time permits, I can help attendees find projects they'd be interested in contributing to.

Note: This talk was originally planned for the 6th, but was postponed due to bad weather.

The slides for this talk are available here.