Talk Intermediate

Making An Open Source Contribution: Live On Stage

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Session Description

A lot of folks who are interested in making contributions face inertia because of not knowing the first steps to take and the right contributions to make. This session is meant to introduce folks to the world of open source contributions.

In order to demonstrate what a contribution involves, the demo will contain a full workflow of identifying a contribution, making it on stage, and understanding the process of forking a codebase, making changes, and opening a pull request, while not forgetting to include meaningful commit messages.

The talk will also help folks identify different improvements that have been made by OSS communities towards inviting new contributors and the elevated contributor experience that exists today.

References

https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/

Session Categories

FOSS

Speakers

Ram Iyengar Chief Evangelist | Cloud Foundry Foundation

Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creative ways to work. He is a proponent of product development and engineering teams that put the community first. He has been regularly dabbling in various areas of open source since being a teenager.