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* [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/OSX command line|OS X]]
* [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Linux command line|Linux]]
== Goal #2: install git ==
Git is a popular revision control system that is used by many open source projects. We'll use it during this workshop.
* [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Windows git|Windows]]
* [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/OSX git|OS X]]
* [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Linux git|Linux]]
== Goal #3: install an IRC client ==
IRC is a real-time chat protocol that open source projects often use to talk about the project and as a medium for users and developers to help each other.
* [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Windows IRC|Windows]]
* [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/OSX IRC|OS X]]
* [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Linux IRC|Linux]]
== Goal #4: practice using SSH ==
SSH allows you to securely access a shell (like the command line window you used earlier) on a remote machine.
* [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Windows SSH|Windows]]
* [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/OSX SSH|OS X]]
* [[Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup/Linux SSH|Linux]]
== Success! ==
You are done with laptop setup!
[[File:Party.png|125px]]
Take a break, stretch, meet some neighbors, and ask the staff if you have any questions about this material.
== Bonus material ==
If you finish laptop setup early:
* Find and join an IRC channel for something you are interested in.
** on Freenode, try #ubuntu (the Linux distribution), #web (web development), #gsoc (Google Summer of Code)
** You can get a full list of Freenode's channels [http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/?net=freenode here]
* [http://code.google.com/soc/ Learn about Google Summer of Code] and [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2011 look at last year's accepted mentor projects].
* [http://www.rackaid.com/resources/linux-screen-tutorial-and-how-to/ Learn about <tt>screen</tt>]. Then ssh into the remote Linux machine <tt>umd-workshop.openhatch.org</tt> and set up a screen session there.
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