Learn to contribute to open source projects, or start your own!

1. Getting Started Contributing
To Open Source
Brian P. Hogan

2. • What is open source software?
• Why should I contribute?
• How do I jump in?
• How do I contribute?

3. What is open source?

4. Free as in beer

5. Free as in speech

6. Why should I
contribute?

7. Learn From
Others

8. Give back

10. Discover new
tools and
technologies

11. make money

13. Get paid to do it

14. Get interviews
and offers

15. How do I jump
in?

16. First, build a thing.

17. "Remove Images"
bookmarklet

18. JavaScript code
var images = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
while(images.length > 0) {
images[0].parentNode.removeChild(images[0]);
}

19. Make it a link
<a href="javascript:(function(){
var images = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
while(images.length > 0) {
images[0].parentNode.removeChild(images[0]);
}
})();">Remove images</a>

20. Second,
embrace
version control

21. Versioning With Git
Create new repository in folder
$ git init
Add files to be committed
$ git add .
Commit files
$ git commit -m "First release"

22. Choose A License
Protect your work
• MIT license
• Apache 2.0 license
• GPL
• Creative Commons
http://choosealicense.com/

23. Write a README
(and learn
Markdown)

24. README.md
# Hide Images Bookmark
## What it does
Hides all the images on the page
## How to use it
Open `index.html` and drag the link to your bookmarks toolbar.
## How to contribute
Fork this repository, make changes, and send a pull request.
## License
MIT. See `license.txt`

25. Add your README and License
Add files to be committed
$ git add README.md LICENSE
Commit files
$ git commit -m "Add readme and license"

26. Share with the world

28. Push Code
Add Github as a remote
$ git add remote origin https://github.com/napcs/hide_images_bookmarklet
Then push your code
$ git push origin master

30. How Do I Contribute?

31. Open Source
Projects need
• Proofreaders
• Designers
• Coders
• Testers

32. Find The
community
• IRC
• Google Groups
• Email lists
• Slack
(the project homepage usually says
where people meet.)

33. Identify an issue