Starling
Starlings!
What is a Starling?
Starlings are people who are interested in free software projects who have successfully completed a Starling Bounty.
Starling Bounties 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 Máirín Duffy's success in getting new contributors to Fedora through Fedora Design Bounties. Read about the most recent request for help and most recent success story.
How to get your 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 intro-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.
- A project contact
- Someone from your project to see this through to completion
We'll provide the writeup. The entire process should be doable in around 10 days.
If this sounds like fun, email us at starling@openhatch.org.