[Numpy-discussion] "Become an Open Source Contributor" workshop

Scott Collis scollis.acrf at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 09:03:25 EDT 2015


Hey Jamie, List,
Having just come back from a conference where our toolkit, Py-ART [1] 
has picked up a nice following of people keen to contribute I was 
wondering if you will be opening this up via a google hangout or similar?

I would love to advertise this to our users. We all want more 
contributors and a big roadblock is understanding the fork and pull 
request system of GitHub

We did run a course that had some GitGub etc here: 
https://github.com/scollis/SusSoPrac You are welcome to use anything 
liberally!

Cheers,
Scott


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> The Data Science Student Society of the University of California San Diego,
> or DS3 @ UCSD as they like to call themselves, will be holding biweekly
> Python themed workshops starting this fall.  On the week of October 19th,
> they will be having yours truly doing a "Become an Open Source Contributor"
> piece.  It will be a shortish event, 60-90 minutes, so my idea was to cover
> the following:
>
>     1. (15 min) An introduction to the Python data science landscape.
>     2. (30 min) An overview of the GitHub workflow that most (all?) of the
>     projects follow.
>     3. (30-45 min) A hands on session, where we would make sure everyone
>     gets set up in GitHub, and forks and clones their favorite project.  Time
>     and participant willingness permitting, I would like to take advantage of
>     my commit bits, and have some of the participants submit a simple PR, e.g.
>     fixing a documentation typo, to NumPy or SciPy, and hit the green button
>     right there, so that they get to leave as knighted FOSS contributors.
>
> And this is what I am hoping to get from you, the community:
>
>     1. If anyone in the area would like to get involved, please contact me.
>     I have recruited a couple of volunteers from PySanDiego, but could use more
>     help.
>     2. I'm also hoping to get some help, especially with the introductory
>     part.  Given that the crowd will mostly be university students and some
>     faculty, it would be great if someone who actually knew what they were
>     talking about could deliver a short, 10 minute talk, on Python, data
>     science, and academia.  I'm sure we could arrange it to have someone join
>     by video conference.
>     3. If you have organized anything similar in the past, and have material
>     that I could use to, ahem, draw inspiration from, or recommendations to
>     make, or whatever, I'd love to hear from you.
>
> Thanks for reading!
>
> Jaime
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