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How to Contribute to Open Source

  1. What is Open Source?

  2. Culture of Open Source

  • notable actors
  • languages & companies
  • government involvement
  1. Why should you care?
  • benefits of reading code
  • real-world experience
  1. How can you help?
  • three levels of contributions
  1. Where do you start?
  • techniques for contributing, finding a project
  • discuss how (and why) the codebase is structured
  1. Process of Contributing
  • finding the project
  • running set-up scripts
  • reading a lot of code
  1. Resources
  • forums & mailing lists
  • companies
  • language APIs and project wikis
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