This session is facilitated by Mateusz Kuzak, Anna Krystalli, Raniere Silva
About this session
This session is designed to be an all-day drop-in session, where people can bring laptops if they wish or use a provided laptop. A broad range of pre-selected open source issues will be available for participants to work on, carefully curated to ensure there are issues covering design skills, documentation, typo fixes, testing, and of course code as well.
People will be encouraged to sign up for GitHub but can use a group account created for this event if it is more convenient for them or if there are privacy reasons for them to do so.
If participants wish to stay longer, they will be encouraged to learn about GitHub tags such as first-timers only and Hacktoberfest. They will also be welcome to help tutor other newbies, sharing newfound skills.
A range of prepared printed information sheets will inform participants about open source practices and challenges.
Goals of this session
This year MozFest is themed around “Healthy AI”, but in order for us to be able to get there we all want to gain the skills to contribute to code projects, and if you’re at MozFest, naturally you’ll want your work to be open source. While this could mean writing code for computers, code is far from the only useful way to contribute to open source. If you’d like to learn how to get started, drop by for a taster suited to your individual skills, whether you’re a designer, a coder, none of the above, and no matter if you’re 7 or 70 - just bring a sense of enthusiasm and a desire to learn. Think less about AI and rise of the machines, and more about open source contributions for all.