New Course: First Commit

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About the course

Title

First Commit

Subtitle

Getting Started with contributing to Free and Open Source Software

Description

Are you a developer instead to start contributing to FOSS projects, but don't know where to start?

With maintainers and core developers of some FOSS projects as mentors, this cohort-based course is guides you to acquire required skills to start contributing to a FOSS project.

During this course you'll learn how to find issues that can contribute to, how to ask right questions and also how to grow to become maintainers of a FOSS projects. By the end of this course, you'll come out with a couple of your contributions to a FOSS project.

Course Outline

1. The World of FOSS

Understand the spirit of Free and Open Source Software and learn why it is important to contribute.

• The spirit of FOSS
• Why should you contribute?

2. How to find a project to contribute

TODO

References

https://fossunited.org/first-commit

Notes

Looking for people in the FOSS community to come forward to shape this course and run.

Please suggest ideas to make this course possible.

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Can we compile some resources that we can use for this course? Please share the ones you like here. @de-sh @palnabarun @kushaldas @sayanchowdhury.