[Numpy-discussion] "Become an Open Source Contributor" workshop

[Charles R Harris]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Jaime Fernández del Río <
jaime.frio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apologies for the cross-posting.
>
> The Data Science Student Society of the University of California San
> Diego, or DS3 @ UCSD as they like to call themselves, will be holding
> biweekly Python themed workshops starting this fall.  On the week of
> October 19th, they will be having yours truly doing a "Become an Open
> Source Contributor" piece.  It will be a shortish event, 60-90 minutes, so
> my idea was to cover the following:
>
>    1. (15 min) An introduction to the Python data science landscape.
>    2. (30 min) An overview of the GitHub workflow that most (all?) of the
>    projects follow.
>    3. (30-45 min) A hands on session, where we would make sure everyone
>    gets set up in GitHub, and forks and clones their favorite project.  Time
>    and participant willingness permitting, I would like to take advantage of
>    my commit bits, and have some of the participants submit a simple PR, e.g.
>    fixing a documentation typo, to NumPy or SciPy, and hit the green button
>    right there, so that they get to leave as knighted FOSS contributors.
>
>
You could create a `foolscrap` repo in the numpy project on github and use
that. That would probably be useful for other people as well.

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Chuck

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