I often get asked about how to find Open Source projects to contribute to. In this post, I’ll show you where you can find these projects. You can use these tips and adjust your search depending on what you are looking for in terms of the type of project you…

This month, GitHub announced that Organizations can have profile READMEs so we created one at AnitaB.org! — GitHub announced the other day, that Organizations can now have their own README. I love this feature! So when I had the chance I created one for AnitaB.org Open Source community. One thing I’ve learned from being involved with Open Source is that not all communities work the same way…

How to sync forked repository with the original repository using git on the terminal — When you want to contribute to an open source repository, you usually fork a repository so you can do your changes and later submit them via a pull request. …

In this post, I’ll describe 4 benefits Open Source Hack program has for AnitaB.org Open Source community. — At AnitaB.org Open Source we recently had the second version of Open Source Hack (OSH), a program, originally created by May Winterz. Open Source Hack is a 1-month long program where we have issues of all types of open source contributions (e.g.: coding, quality assurance, documentation, design, etc…) available to…

So this past year, I have been finding a lot of Call for Proposals (CFPs) for speaking at events. I want to share how I find so many of these so that more people can find them by themselves. I find speaking opportunities via multiple sources: Aggregated newsletters Follow specific…

Did you know you can contribute to Open Source with Quality Assurance? — Usually while building software, there is some component of quality assurance or testing involved, so that also applies to open source projects. When I think of quality assurance of a project I think of testing in general, which includes writing unit tests, integration tests, manual testing, performance testing, documenting test…

In this post, I explain how I contributed to open source, through a project I was already using — scala-exercises.org. — As a beginner in contributing to open source, you might not be sure of how to start contributing. I want to tell you about a contribution I have made to an open source project I used. Often I explain to people who want to start contributing, that they can look…

Often when making changes to code, I commit them and then have to change to commit I just made, either because I think the commit message could be better or I had to make a last-minute change to the code I wish to include in the commit. Change last commit message So consider I…

Um projecto Open Source costuma ter uma base de ficheiros, que permite colaboradores perceber como devem interagir com o projecto e quais as expectativas de quem mantém o projecto (maintainer). Estes são os ficheiros base que projetos open source costumam ter. Licença A Licença de um projeto open source é importante…