Welcome
Welcome to Open Source Day with OpenHatch at the Grace Hopper Celebration.
I'm so pleased to be sharing my interest in open source and humanity with you. 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
Grace Hopper is an exciting event to attend. There's much to see and do as well as get ready for the week. I have purposefully left the pre-workshop requirements minimal.
If you have a personal laptop, please do bring it to the workshop. I recognize that not everyone may be bringing a computer and let me put your mind at ease if that is the case. Everyone will be able to participate and learn from the workshop.
Pre-event preparation (if your time permits): you may wish to create a GitHub account and install the command line version of git for your system.
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, you do not need to do any prior preparation. 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
A nice post about OpenHatch and Open Source Day by Jen Wike Huger at Opensource.com. Jen will be speaking at GHC too.
Thank you
Please take a moment during the entire conference to thank the many volunteers and organizers. Thank you to the Hoppers too!
Safe travels, and I'm looking forward to seeing you in a few days.