Teaching Get Involved

From Teaching Open Source

[edit] The aim

Creating a resource used by Open Source projects as they develop and implement "Get Involved" procedures into their project.

Essentially this is a guide about creating "Get Involved" guides, including freely usable snippets of text and examples that projects may freely use. The licensing of this content should be extremely open.

[edit] What this includes

Snippets of text that projects may freely implement into their project
Ideas about finding and teaching new and old contributors
Discuss common problems and how to avoid them
Explain different types of structure (what it takes to receive commit access)
Discuss keeping it simple and intelligent navigation
A lengthy FAQ
Many examples
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[edit] Examples

[edit] Using VCS for project X

Information about why projects use VCS, and how to use it
Explanation of how it works
Include a guide/table of common commands each VCS uses (git clone vs cvs co vs ...)

[edit] CVS

Includes text specific to CVS where projects may freely use and edit for their given project

[edit] The plan

Locate examples of good and bad projects and define why
Break down "Get Involved" into specific elements
Take one element and create a draft for it (Managing and using VCS the first?)

[edit] Participants

Philip Olson
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[edit] Related projects