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<h3>Benefits to Student Involvement</h3>
Why should you support student involvement in open source? [[:Benefits | Learn more....]]
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<h3>Getting Started</h3>
How do you get started supporting student involvement in open source? [[:Getting_Started | Learn more....]]
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Want to learn more about Open Source projects and getting started?
Picture of person climbing staircase of books

Benefits to Student Involvement

Why should you support student involvement in open source? Learn more....

Picture of person climbing staircase of books

Getting Started

How do you get started supporting student involvement in open source? Learn more....

Picture of two people holding hands with heart in the middle

(H)FOSS Communities and Organizations

Want to learn about Learn more....


Suggested tabs:

  • Benefits to student involvement in
  • Getting started - links to Shlomi's article and other outside links
  • (H)FOSS projects and organizations - links to "big, huge page" and to the page that lists projects we've worked on

Benefits to Student Involvement in Open Source (moved from Learning Resources)

Students:

  • Are motivated to learn!
  • Gain a professional network
  • Get experience with a real, complex code base
  • Understand how computing works in the real world
  • Learn professional skills such as communication, collaboration and critical thinking
  • Learn about open source software and culture

Open source projects:

  • Gain new contributors
  • Gain relationships with academia
  • Expand the use of open source

How to start contributing to or using Open Source Software (moved from Learning Resources)

Getting Started with FOSS