How to help open source project grow up.

1. How to contribute to
Open Source?
Speaker: Hor Phallin
Position: Web Developer at Web Essentials
Email:
phallin@web-essentials.asia
phallin.webdeveloper@gmail.com
Tel:
097 701 6131

2. Agenda
❖ What is Open Source?
❖ Getting start with contribution on github
❖ The rules for contribution
❖ How can developers and non developer
contributes to Open Source?

3. Agenda
❖ What will you get back from contributing
to Open Source?
❖ Reference

4. What is Open Source?
❖ The term "open source" refers to
something that can be modified because
its design is publicly accessible.

5. What is Open Source?
❖ Open source software is software that
source code is available for modification or
enhancement by anyone.
❖ The open source softwares are Firefox,
Linux, OpenOffice, Thunderbird, etc.

6. What is Open Source?
❖ Open source also has license.
❖ Open source license is different from
other license.
 They are GPU, Apache License 2.0, …

7. Starting contribution with github
 Create github account.
 Searching for project you want to
contribute
 Fork it
 Change it
 Pull request

8. The rules for contribute
❖ The rules depend on the project that you
contribute to.
❖ For example, jquery project
-https://github.com/jquery/jquerymobile/
blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

9. How can developers and non
developers contribute to Open
Source?
Just say “thanks” or “Like” to project or
software originator are also called
contribution.

10. The ways to contribute
❖ Provide reports (say something you like
and dislike)
❖ Create feature request (Suggest a
Feature)
❖ Test the code
❖ Answer questions on the forums and
mailing lists.

11. The ways to contribute
❖ Design user interface, logo, website and
art work
❖ Promote the projects or software
❖ Write blog posts
❖ Bug fix (apply patch)

12. The ways to contribute
❖ Use the product
❖ Write documentation
❖ Translation
❖ Donation
❖ Be professional

13. What will you get back from
contributing to Open Source?
❖ Practice and learn about software
development
❖ Practice and learn programming language
or technology
❖ To build your online presence
 Amazing feeling

14. References
http://blog.udacity.com/2013/10/getstar
ted-with-open-source-projects.html
http://blog.udacity.com/2013/10/getstar
ted-with-open-source-projects_8.html
https://help.github.com/articles/fork-arepo

15. References
https://help.github.com/articles/usingpullrequests

16. Q&A
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