[OH-announce] OpenHatch newsletter, March 2014
Mike Linksvayer
ml at openhatch.org
Mon Mar 31 20:06:53 UTC 2014
OpenHatch newsletter, March 2014
<http://openhatch.org/blog/2014/newsletter-march-2014/>
OMG @terrimyu is the sweetest thing EVER!!! Love love love my @openhatch
stickers!!! <https://twitter.com/jillysciarilly/status/448825210326626304>
Welcome to OpenHatch newsletter number 20.
French translation
<http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2014/03/05/guide-preparation-evenement-logiciel-libre>
of the OpenHatch In-Person Event Handbook <http://opensource-events.com/>.
SpinachCon Zero == A Huge Success!
<https://openhatch.org/blog/2014/spinachcon-zero-a-huge-success/> for
free software user testing hackathon:
We also have some exciting plans for the future. As you may have
guessed by where this blog’s been posted, OpenHatch is going to be
the official organizational home for SpinachCon going forward. Once
we’ve sorted through the data and suggestions we gathered at the
first event, we’ll improve the tests and materials so they can be
shared and used at other events. OpenHatch has long been interested
in finding more ways for non-technical contributors to participate
in the creation of free software, so this is a great fit! OpenHatch
already hosts the very popular Open Source Comes to Campus events at
schools around the country. We often get asked, “What can we do
next?” and hosting a SpinachCon will soon be one of the answers we
can give.
Two Open Source Comes to Campus events this month, at UMass-Amherst
<http://umass.openhatch.org/> and City College of San Francisco
<http://ccsf.openhatch.org/>. Blog posts coming soon. Coming up in
April: George Mason University (April 19th), Northeastern Illinois
University (April 26th) and MIT (April 26th and 27th). Contact us if you
want to get involved!
List of Summer Internships for Open Source Enthusiasts
<https://openhatch.org/blog/2014/summer-internships-for-open-source-enthusiasts/>.
Still time to apply for several!
How we prepared an open source sprint that converted friends into new
contributors. <https://openhatch.org/blog/2014/january-sprint/> Scroll
to the bottom for a bonus ASCII patch-review flow chart.
Two new wiki pages: Contributing to Python
<https://openhatch.org/wiki/Contributing_to_Python> and Triaging Python
tickets <https://openhatch.org/wiki/Triaging_Python_tickets>. (“Python
has 800 patches stalling on a review. Want to help me review them? Great
way to start contributing.
<https://twitter.com/jessicamckellar/status/446019537629351936>“)
New projects in the OpenHatch volunteer opportunity finder
* ProteanOS <http://openhatch.org/projects/ProteanOS> is a fully-free
operating system distribution of binary packages, configurable for a
wide variety of embedded systems. It invites newcomers to help with
making <http://www.proteanos.com/dev/pkg/needed/> and updating
<http://www.proteanos.com/dev/pkg/spf-2.0/> software packages,
developing distribution tools, drafting technical documentation, and
more <http://www.proteanos.com/dev/>.
OpenHatchy but not OpenHatch things around the web
Outreach Program for Women wins the Free Software Foundation’s Award for
Projects of Social Benefit
<http://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-award-winners-announced>!
Selena Deckelmann’s slides and speaker notes on What Beginners Teach Us
<https://speakerdeck.com/selenamarie/what-beginners-teach-us-passion-projects>.
RIT launches first minor in free and open source software and free
culture <http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=50590>.
Introduction to Linux MOOC
<https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx-lfs101x-introduction-1621>
starting 3rd quarter 2014.
Open Sourcing Feminism: The Challenge of Collective Intelligence in 2014
<http://blog.loomio.org/2014/03/08/open-sourcing-feminism-the-challenge-of-collective-intelligence-in-2014/>
by Vivien Maidaborn, one of two female founders of Loomio.
Ask HN: Best OSS Projects for Beginning Contributors
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7407080>
Knight News Challenge entry from Sandra Ordenez: Increasing Diversity in
Open Source for a Better Internet
<https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/feedback-review/increasing-diversity-in-open-source-for-a-better-internet>.
Wikimedia series on Seeing through the eyes of new technical
contributors
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/25/seeing-through-the-eyes-of-new-technical-contributors/>.
Lukas Blakk, Project Ascend Kickoff
<http://lukasblakk.com/ascend-project-kickoff/>:
I had an idea to create an open source version and specifically
target participants who come from underemployed, LGBTQ, Latin@, and
African American populations – aka: people who are terribly
underrepresented in tech but also very much more so in Open Source.
The idea was that instead of people paying to come learn to become
developers in the capitalist, Startup-focused, feeding-frenzy the
Silicon Valley promotes we could instead seed other towns, other
communities with open source and create an in-depth technical
contribution training program that more mirrored the experience I
had with Dave Humphrey at Seneca College.
Opensource.com: Academic computer science education group puts focus on
open source
<http://opensource.com/education/14/3/open-education-workshop-explores-foss>.
Also check out links submitted to /r/openhatch
<http://www.reddit.com/r/openhatch>, and add your finds!
Get involved
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<http://htmlpad.org/oh-newsletter-201404/edit> (preview
<http://htmlpad.org/oh-newsletter-201404>). Join our publicity list
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with suggestions and questions.
Thanks to Britta Gustafson and Shauna Gordon-McKeon for contributing to
this edition!
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