Starling

Starlings!

What is a Starling?

Starlings are people who are interested in free software projects who have been motivated by our Starling Bounties to learn how to contribute to free software by fixing or creating what the bounty calls for.

During the fall of 2010, OpenHatch is writing starling bounty posts. These are clear, focused guides for new contributors to do something useful in an existing free software project. We want to turn people who love using free software into budding contributors, our own little OpenHatchlings on their way to becoming rising stars of free software!

Starling bounties are inspired by Fedora Design Bounties by Mairin Duffy.

How to get a project involved

If your project has a simple task that needs to be done (write some documentation, fix some bug, work on some design, etc), we can help each other! For a project to get involved, they need to provide the following:

• An into-level task which needs completion
  • Should be well scoped and clearly defined, with a definite end.
• Documentation on the process to complete the task
  • Should be step-by-step
• Motivation for the contributor
  • List of skills they will acquire, knowledge and experience they will gain, and impact their contribution will make.

We'll provide the writeup.