Asheesh Laroia
Asheesh Laroia
OpenHatch- Website: http://asheesh.org/
- Blog: http://asheesh.org/note/
- Twitter: asheeshlaroia
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Biography
Asheesh loves growing camaraderie among geeks. He chaired the Johns Hopkins Association for Computing Machinery and taught Python classes at Noisebridge, San Francisco’s hackerspace. He realizes that most of the work that makes projects successful is hidden underneath the surface.
He has volunteered his technical skills for the UN in Uganda, the EFF, and Students for Free Culture, and is a Developer in Debian. Today, he lives in San Francisco, working on OpenHatch.
Open Source Bridge 2013 Birds of a Feather
Proposals for this user
* PyLadies + OpenHatch: Make your first contribution to OSS! (Confirmed)
Contribute with us! PyLadies PDX and OpenHatch are teaming up to host this drop-in session for those who want to contribute to open source, but don't know how to get started. Learn the basics and get set up with OpenHatch. Goal is to submit a patch by the end of the night!
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BOF | 05/29/2013 02:28PM |
| PyLadies PDX, Asheesh Laroia | ||
Open Source Bridge 2013
Sessions for this user
* Quantitative community management
In this talk, you will learn the state of the art in community measurement, common mistakes made in surveying, and how to actively use data to improve activity within a project.
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Culture |
| Asheesh Laroia | |
* Training the trainers
This long session is a tutorial, with exercises, on how to run welcoming, effective outreach events targeted at bringing newcomers into your communities.
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Cooking |
| Asheesh Laroia | |
Open Source Bridge 2012
Sessions for this user
* 29 Ways to Get Started in Open Source Today
Learn how to get started in open source. You can help your favorite open source project, even if you don't think you're "a good enough programmer". You just have to know where to start, and here you'll learn 29 different starting points where you can pitch in and make a difference in the software that you use every day.
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Culture |
| Asheesh Laroia | |
* Outreach Events: My Triumphs, My Mistakes
We all love sprinting with other experts, but how do you design an event effectively to reach out to and train newbies? It takes more work than you might think (publicity, prep, structure, and followup), but here's how.
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Cooking |
| Sumana Harihareswara, Asheesh Laroia | |
Open Source Bridge 2011
Sessions for this user
* Learn Open Source Skills Without Embarrassing Yourself
New contributors are often intimidated the first time they appear in public to share a tarball, submit a patch, or open an IRC client. What if they could practice within "training levels" for open source contribution? This talk introduces the OpenHatch training missions, an open-source, interactive, entertaining way to learn the tools and culture of our community.
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Culture |
| Asheesh Laroia | |
* Open Source Communities Panel
Learn from open source community leaders who work on projects big and small.
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Culture |
| Audrey Eschright, Asheesh Laroia, Noirin Plunkett, Jane Wells, Chris Strahl | |
Proposals for this user
* Get more contributors (and diversity) through outreach
Want to learn how to *successfully* reach out to new contributors? Learn from other projects' successes
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Culture | 03/31/2011 10:27PM |
| Asheesh Laroia | ||
* How Debian revitalized the "mentors" list
Debian is a project famous for being harsh to newcomers. Learn how Debian changed the culture on the debian-mentors list, and how this doubled traffic and dropped unanswered threads by 90%
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Culture | 03/31/2011 10:42PM |
| Asheesh Laroia | ||