WORKSHOP: Open Source Software development

MUB 140, Ocean campus

Saturday, June 29th

CCSF Coders & CCSF Linux Users Group in conjunction with OpenHatch are hosting a one-day workshop on contributing to open source software development.

Here's the day's agenda (food provided):

• BREAKFAST & Introductions
• Ethics & history of free software
• OSS project organization & communication tools
  • Different roles within project
  • IRC and its netiquette
  • Mailing lists
• Bug trackers (lifecycle of a bug, how to provide all the relevant info when reporting)
• Version control (diff, svn, git)
• How to create and submit a patch to a bug tracker for review
• LUNCH
• A contribution demo (using GitHub)
• Student hacking session

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