Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Laptop setup

Goal #1: practice navigating from the command line
Many of the tools of open source development are primarily used via the command line. Let's get some practice with navigating the computer from the command line.


 * Windows
 * OS X
 * 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.


 * Windows
 * OS X
 * 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.


 * Windows
 * OS X
 * Linux

Goal #4: practice ssh

 * Windows
 * OS X
 * Linux