Welcome to Open Source Day

Carol Willing

I am so pleased that you are joining us today. Thank you to the attendees, mentors, and organizers. Please take a moment to look around, introduce yourselves, and get ready to learn and contribute!

I hope you will leave this workshop with some new insights and knowledge about the tools and processes of open source.

My personal goal for this workshop is to inspire you, a community of confident, caring contributors, to share your talents with our world.

Today's schedule

  • Communications
  • Wrap up
  • What's next

Taking care of you

Conferences, and learning, can be exhausting. Please take care and enjoy!

  • Breaks
  • Lunch
  • Venue, first aid,

Projects

  • OpenHatch website
  • Systers VMS Volunteer Management System
  • Open Source Day 2015 - OpenHatch "Inspire Others" Site
  • Your favorite open source project (note: mentors may not be as experienced or able to commit your contribution on these projects)

GHC Official Open Source Day Documentation

  • Schedule
  • Contacts

Next steps

Let's get started. Thanks in advance for contributing to the change you want to see in the world.

About Nikola

Getting ready for Open Source Day

Carol Willing

While we will be spending only a few hours together in Houston, I hope that you will find the time valuable. In the days and months after Grace Hopper, I hope that many of you will share your knowledge and experience with others.

On a personal note, I find contributing to open source as a great way to empower others to solve real world problems. I am so pleased that Open Source Day 2015's theme focuses on Humanitarian Open Source.

Attendees

We're all busy and Grace Hopper is an exciting event to attend. If you have a personal laptop, please do bring it to the workshop. I recognize that not everyone may be bringing a computer, no worries as you will still be able to participate and learn from the workshop.

Mentors

Thank you for sharing your time and love of computer science. Other than perhaps skimming this website, installing git on your laptop and having an editor that you feel comfortable using. Please bring your patience and enthusiasm too.

Projects

  • OpenHatch website
  • Systers Volunteer Management System
  • "To be named and created" Open Source Day 2015 Pay-It-Forward Project

Thank you

Please take a moment during the entire conference to thank the many volunteers and organizers. Thank you to the Hoppers too!