Saturday, August 16, 2014

Women Who Code - Open Source Software

Women Who Code
Kid and I made a field trip to a Open Source event by Women Who Code SF. Mostly it was above our heads, and we were too tired to tackle it with energy, but still it was interesting. I installed Git Bash and Notepad++ on my laptop, got a sense of some Open Source volunteer opportunities, and learned some Git-related words and ideas.
Not sure what you're looking for, but you might check out some of the following if any of it interests you:
  • Mozilla has an office here in San Francisco, plus their main HQ down in the South Bay -- not sure where you're coming from -- so you might check out their projects (testing, documentation, web/tutorial development...plus they have good community member development paths).  In the future, I'd love for you to meet Larissa Shapiro, who is based in the SF office and handles Community Management, but I don't think she's coming tomorrow.
  • Or following up on your Python, you might check out newcoder.io -- go through these tutorials & if you find any bugs, help improve their tutorials
See you tomorrow,
Katherine
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Other bits of notes from this event:

http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-SF/events/195850392 -

learning about the tools of open source software - http://openhatch.org/missions/
- browsing through various open source projects
- installing open source software to start using it
- installing the development environment
- downloading & building from source
- identifying issues to work on
- creating tests & patches
- working on an OPW application
- helping others do these things too!

http://newcoder.io/