How to Run a Whole Community Sprint
Most open source project sprints are focused on code contribution. While this makes some sense---open source software is, after all, *software*---it's also a little narrow-minded.
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Read more → More from Duly Noted →So, LibrePlanet happened this weekend. It’s one of my favorite conferences, and not just because it’s local. This year Deb Nicholson and I ran a pre-conference workshop for free software projects to improve their usability and new contributor onboarding, hosted by the lovely folks at Bocoup. According to our participants it was a smashing success. Deb and I are writing up a guide so that other FOSS conferences can run similar workshops.
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Preparing for the PyCon Sprints
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →A year or so ago I wrote the In Person Event Handbook to help people prepare their projects for in-person events like workshops, hackathons, and sprints. With the PyCon 2015 sprints coming up, I thought I'd take a moment to write up the highlights. Want to make your project welcoming to newcomers? Read on!
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Be a poster child!
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →Would you like to present at an open source conference, but aren't sure what to talk about, or feeling shy? A poster can be a great way to get started. Not only are they less nerve-wracking to present, they're often more likely to be accepted than talk proposals. Yesterday evening, October 1st, we held a meetup on our IRC channel to brainstorm poster ideas for PyCon 2015.
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Short Event, Big Impact: Open Source at SUNY Stony Brook
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →I spent weeks going back and forth with Hanne Paine, a student and open source enthusiast at SUNY Stony Brook. For every date she suggested, we already had an event planned. Finally, we decided to wait until the fall to hold a full workshop. I felt badly, though. I knew I'd be passing through New York City in April, right around the dates she'd been pushing for. "How about I just stop by for a couple hours on a week night and do a short intro presentation?"
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Congrats to friends of OpenHatch at PyCon 2014!
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →The list of talks, tutorials and posters accepted to PyCon 2014 was announced yesterday. Excitedly, we took to Twitter to congratulate the many OpenHatch community members who had their proposals accepted -- only to realize there's no way they'd all fit in a single tweet! We decided to write a blog post instead.
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Ready, Set, Contribute: a handbook for preparing your open source project for events
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →Today, we're releasing a handbook to help open source projects prepare themselves for events.
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Teaching Open Source at Northeastern University
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →!bostonsummer On Saturday, June 22nd we ran our tenth Open Source Comes to Campus event, at Northeastern University. Many thanks to Ali Ukani and the Northeastern University ACM for hosting.
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Teaching open source at UMass-Amherst
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →On Sunday, April 14th, we ran our ninth Open Source Comes to Campus event, at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Many thanks to Tariq Ahmad, Andy Yee, UMass IEEE and UMass ACM. Check out the photo gallery!
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OpenHatch at Transparency Camp on May 4-5, celebrating open government
Read more → More from OpenHatch blog →TransparencyCamp is a yearly unconference to celebrate, and work toward, government transparency. It's run by the Sunlight Foundation, and we're honored to be a sponsor! Asheesh Laroia and I will be attending, and Sunlight Foundation has set aside a special area to help open government-oriented open source projects build stronger communities.
