[OH-announce] OpenHatch newsletter, November 2012

[Mike Linksvayer]

Welcome to the 4th OpenHatch [0]newsletter!

   OpenHatch celebrated Ada Lovelace Day with a [1]post honoring Personal
   Genome Project hacker Madeleine Ball:

     Madeleine's work is an inspiration, and a reminder of how to apply
     free software principles in a new domain while staying true to
     software freedom.

   Also see Ada Lovelace Day posts from the [2]Ada Initiative, [3]Free
   Software Foundation, and [4]Wikimedia.

Event wrapups

   We posted event wrapups from two Open Source Comes to Campus events:
   [5]Johns Hopkins University and the [6]University of Illinois at
   Urbana-Champaign. Along with photos and thanks, each post notes two
   actual contributions made by event participants.

   Our events mailing list featured a useful [7]thread on evaluation
   metrics for events. Join the [8]list to share your experiences and get
   help with making your events beginner-friendly.

OpenHatch web development

   Jessica McKellar, OpenHatch board member, [9]mentored at [10]Hacker
   School. Her talk about how to contribute to FLOSS, including getting
   people to step through the [11]OpenHatch training missions led to new
   contributors to the OpenHatch web app code: [12]Becca Liss and
   [13]Sharadha Ramakrishnan. Welcome!

   Asheesh added the [14]commit that removes the most stuff ever so far:
   “Showing 43 changed files with 4 (line) additions and 9,496 (line)
   deletions”
   /github.com/openhatch/oh-mainline/commit/88aa0a68bd5a5387e9d5062c3a4048
   4fa4f9b8fa> (he went on a removal spree after marktraceur mentioned
   ‘senseknocker’ on IRC and wondered what it is, namely a three-years-old
   artifact of an old idea we never chased very far).

OpenHatchy but not OpenHatch things around the web

   [15]Paul Tagliamonte of #openhatch and debian-mentors asks, [16]What is
   holding you back from becoming a maintainer of a package in Debian?

   An excellent [17]GNOME Newcomers Tutorial by [18]Marina Zhurakhinskaya:

     This tutorial was very much inspired by the OpenHatch setup
     instructions, missions and workshops!

   [19]Upstream University offers a course for professional developers who
   want to learn how to contribute to free software projects. This is much
   needed, and the price (US$3500) reasonable for corporate education. But
   in the OpenHatchy glorious future, contributing to free software
   projects will be part of the educational experience of all computer
   science students, and many more!

   A [20]retrospective on a recent MediaWiki hackathon in Berlin has lots
   of details on goals, logistics, and post-event surveys.

Get involved

   You can contribute to this newsletter and other OpenHatch publicity. We
   collaborate on a [21]low-volume mailing list.

   [22]Read previous newsletters.

   [23]Like, follow @openhatch at [24]identi.ca or [25]Twitter.

References

   0. https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/newsletter-201211/
   1. https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/madeleine-ball-an-inspiration-in-open-medicine-and-free-software-for-ada-lovelace-day/
   2. http://adainitiative.org/2012/10/ada-lovelace-day-countess-ada-lovelace/
   3. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/happy-ada-lovelace-day
   4. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/16/ada-lovelace-day-2012/
   5. https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/getting-students-involved-in-open-source-at-johns-hopkins/
   6. https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/teaching-open-source-at-uiuc-reflections-projections/
   7. http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/events/2012-October/000372.html
   8. http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/events
   9. https://twitter.com/jessicamckellar/status/258044745731956736
  10. https://www.hackerschool.com/
  11. https://openhatch.org/missions/
  12. https://github.com/becdot
  13. http://flavors.me/vu2srk
  14. https://github.com/openhatch/oh-mainline/commit/88aa0a68bd5a5387e9d5062c3a40484fa4f9b8fa
  15. http://pault.ag/
  16. http://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1250qd/what_is_holding_you_back_from_becoming_a/
  17. https://live.gnome.org/NewcomersTutorial
  18. http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/events/2012-October/000377.html
  19. http://upstream-university.org/
  20. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Berlin_Hackathon_2012/Retrospective
  21. http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/publicity
  22. https://openhatch.org/blog/tag/newsletter
  23. https://www.facebook.com/openhatch
  24. http://identi.ca/openhatch
  25. http://twitter.com/openhatch