Brilliant student like you around the world are gaining
valuable experience, connections, and skills by
coding, testing, and debugging for free software
projects like Firefox, WordPress, Wikipedia's backend
code, and SAGE.
You do not need to know how to program to
contribute to free software. You can contribute code,
but also original art, testing, documentation, web
design, or anything else. We want to teach you how to
join them.
The events
On Wed 9/26 and Thu 9/26, in SEO 1000
we want to bring you up to speed on open source
projects and help you contribute to a real
community.
First, we'll teach you about open source
licensing, collaboration tools, and how free software
projects are organized.
Next, we'll help you make contributions
to open source projects.
And throughout the day we'll feed you, get to know
you, and talk with you about opportunities for
students in open source.
Space is pretty limited and we want to prepare to
meet your needs. Please sign up in advance
by filling out this
form. Don't delay!
Or you can scroll past the form and keep reading...
More about open source
Free, open source software is software that is
shared freely and available to build upon. It is a
great way to apply your skills to real-world projects
and social causes. You can participate by writing or
reviewing code, answering users' questions,
translating the interface to another graphic engine, making
video tutorials to help new users, and myriad other
ways. Open source software is often produced by lots
of volunteers collaborating across the nation and around the world, and
this event specially welcomes change to that style
of work.
Open source participation is one way to gain
coding skills and make connections that will last
you through your career. Volunteer staff will include
professionals and academics who use open source
daily.
Who we are
The event is put together
by Asheesh
Laroia and Shauna Gordon-McKeon
of OpenHatch, with
the help of UIC CS and Women in CS.
We're a non-profit that helps people get involved
in open source. You
can learn
more.
Get in touch
If you want to get in touch with us, the best thing
to do is to email us. Try this:
hello@openhatch.org
Want to get ahead of the event? Ask questions on
#openhatch on FreeNode. Consider using IRC your first
open source accomplishment :)
Click here
for web chat.
Sign up
Now is the time to scroll up and make sure you sign
up!
About the people at the event
A staffer made money writing open source software.
A staffer provided advice on starting out in open source.
Katie Reddemann came to OpenHatch because she is graduating in two years and needs to get more experience in these kinds of things.
A student talked about an open source projects they have used, and how they felt about it.
