Open Source Bridge

Excerpt

Description

Leslie Hawthorn and I co-present this talk for beginners who are interested to getting involved but don’t know where or how to start.

We cover the basics of:
-why you might want to get involved
-what you can get out of participating
-more than coding is needed
-how to chose a project
-how to get started
-etiquette of lists and other communication
-dos and don’t of joining a community

The talk is not just for beginners; experienced FOSS folks can learn how to help newbies successfully join their projects.

Tags

Open Source, newbies

Speakers

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  Cat Allman

  Google
  • Website: http://code.google.com/opensource

  Biography

  Cat Allman has been involved with the free and Open Source community since the mid 1980s, including stints at Mt Xinu, Sendmail, Inc, and the USENIX Association. Her outreach role in the Open Source Programs Office at Google is like slipping into a warm bath of global FOSS goodness.

  Leslie Hawthorn held various roles at Google before joining the Open Source Programs Office, in March 2006. She manages the Google Summer of Code program and the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, Google’s flagship initiatives to get students involved in Open Source communities and software development. Leslie also facilitates Open Source community hackathons globally, many hosted by Google at their corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA.

  Leslie holds an Honors B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.

  Leslie Hawthorn and I co-present this talk for beginners who are interested to getting involved but don’t know where or how to start. We cover the basics of:
  -why you might want to get involved
  -what you can get out of participating
  -more than coding is needed
  -how to chose a project
  -how to get started
  -etiquette of lists and other communication
  -dos and don’t of joining a community

  Sessions

  • * Getting Started in Free and Open Source
    • Title: Getting Started in Free and Open Source
    • Track: Cooking
    • Room: Broadway
    • Time: 11:20am – 12:05pm
    • Excerpt:

      “All That Glitters is Not (Only) Code
      - Testing
      - Localization
      - Documentation
      - Release Engineering
      - User Interface Design / Usability
      - User support”

    • Speakers: Cat Allman, Leslie Hawthorn
• 

  Leslie Hawthorn

  Google Inc.
  • Website: http://www.hawthornlandings.org/

  Biography

  Leslie Hawthorn is a Program Manager for Google’s Open Source Programs Office, where she’s the Community Manager for the Google Summer of Code program. She also conceived and managed the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, the world’s first global initiative to get pre-university students involved in all aspects of Open Source software development. Leslie serves on the Advisory Board of the GNOME Foundation and the Open Source Business Resource. She also serves on the Oregon State School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Industrial Advisory Board and the Steering Committee for the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Project.

  Prior to joining Google, Leslie got her feet wet in Silicon Valley high tech at a small communications semiconductor startup, where she worked in Marketing and Public Relations. She holds a Honors B.A. in English Language and Literature from U.C. Berkeley and her personal website is http://www.hawthornlandings.org or you can find her on identi.ca – @lh – and Twitter – @lhawthorn.

  Sessions

  • * Getting Started in Free and Open Source
    • Title: Getting Started in Free and Open Source
    • Track: Cooking
    • Room: Broadway
    • Time: 11:20am – 12:05pm
    • Excerpt:

      “All That Glitters is Not (Only) Code
      - Testing
      - Localization
      - Documentation
      - Release Engineering
      - User Interface Design / Usability
      - User support”

    • Speakers: Cat Allman, Leslie Hawthorn