[Campus-uconn-staff] IMPORTANT: Open Source comes to Campus event this Saturday

[Pariksheet Nanda]

Hi fellow open source enthusiasts,

Unfortunately this Saturday's event workshop has been cancelled due to
logistical issues.   The good news is that you can get full benefit of
the first two-thirds of the workshop as many activities on the
schedule are available in self-guided form on the web.  I've listed
those below.

We plan to try again in coming semesters.  If anyone is interested in
helping plan, or being trained as a mentor, please email me to find
out more about what that would involve.  Don't worry about being too
new or too inexperienced, as we're happy to teach you what you need to
know.

Please feel free to email me, or to contact the OpenHatch community
http://openhatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/community/contact.html

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1) Laptop setup and instructions:
Setup IRC, Git command-line and your favorite text
editor.https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Laptop_setup

2) Introduction to Free Software Tools:
There is an excellent video presentation
here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWCH8nos97w
And social norms:http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/social-norms/self-guided.html

3) Hands on Git
Run the git training mission: http://openhatch.org/missions/git
If you get stuck anywhere, please reach out for help on the #openhatch
IRC channel or reply to this e-mail.  Want to know even more about
git?  Try one of these websites:
https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/
http://gitimmersion.com/

4) Contribution Workshop
Bug comprehension:https://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/index.html
Read about merge stories.  If you click on the archives, one of my
favorite posts is about
SciPy:https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Merge_Stories
Finding projects to contribute
to:https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Finding_a_Project
And finally, some ways in which you can start working collaboratively
and help projects:http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/newcomer-tasks/setup/http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/newcomer-tasks/accessibility/https://openhatch.org/w/index.php?title=Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Newcomer_Tasks/Issue_Tracker_Cleaning
If are would like to find opportunities by the programming language,
also see:http://openhatch.org/search/
For shorter or easier tasks, you can use the "bitesize" filter.

Warmly.

Pariksheet

Graduate Student
Biomedical Engineering
University of Connecticut