Interested in contributing to open source? Not sure where to start? Start this month at our Hacktober event with Monica Powell.
Topics the workshop will cover:
- What is Open Source? What are some of the different roles within Open Source?
- Best practices for contributing to open source
- How to identify opportunities to contribute to open source
- Opening an open source pull request
What you'll need before the workshop: a GitHub account https://github.com/
About our speaker: Monica Powell is a software engineer who is passionate about making contributing to open-source more approachable and building community. She currently works at Newsela as a software engineer building educational software and was recently selected to be an inaugural GitHub Star based on her community involvement.
