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'''If you have never heard of open source''': OpenHatch runs outreach events and maintains free, web-based learning tools, to help people get involved in collaborative software development; and we work with computer programming meetup groups to help them run more newcomer-friendly and gender-diverse events. These meetup groups are educational groups that meet free of cost to educate the public on computer software programming topics.

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OpenHatch is an open source project with the goals of lowering the barriers to entry into open source contribution and increasing diversity. We achieve these goals through a number of initiatives.

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'''If you have''': OpenHatch is a non-profit organization, and open source project, with the goals of lowering the barriers to entry into open source contribution and increasing diversity. We achieve these goals through a number of initiatives.

About the non-profit: We are a tiny Massachusetts not-for-profit organization, supported by dozens of volunteers who help maintain our web technology, which we share freely with the world under an open source software license, supported by dozens of volunteers who help make our free events possible, and financially supported by generous corporate sponsors and individual donors. Our [http://openhatch.org/sponsors/ sponsors page] lists the past 12 months' sponsors.

==Training missions==

~~Complete~~ [http://openhatch.org/missions/ training missions] on the OpenHatch website to get experience with common tools of open source development.

Interactive teaching tools on the web [http://openhatch.org/missions/ training missions] on the OpenHatch website to get experience with common tools of open source development.

==IRC community==

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OpenHatch runs outreach events of several flavors, including:

===~~Boston~~ ~~Python~~ ~~Workshop~~===

===Open Source Comes to Campus===

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[http://campus.openhatch.org/ Open Source Comes to Campus] is a series of workshop run on college campuses to help teach students the community knowledge and technical skills to participate in globally distributed software projects. These events are free of cost, supported by donations to OpenHatch. In 2013, we are emphasizing organizing these with women in computer science groups.

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The [http://bostonpythonworkshop.com Boston Python Workshop] is an ~~intro~~ to ~~Python~~ workshop for women and their friends who have no or minimal programming experience. We ~~run~~ the workshop every 2 months with the [http://bostonpython.com Boston Python user group], and it has been a hugely successful and transformative event. We also help other people run outreach events in their cities, and recently received a [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/outreach-and-education/2011-October/000099.html grant] from the Python Software Foundation to bring the workshop to 3 new cities in the US. Check out:

=== Various online and in-person open source teaching events ==

Some examples of past events we have run

=== Affiliated events ===

The Boston Python Workshop (described below) is one example of an ''affiliated event''. These usually free-of-cost are not run by OpenHatch, but its independent organizers decided to ''affiliate'' with us -- for more about that, read the [[Affiliated events]] page.

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The [http://bostonpythonworkshop.com Boston Python Workshop] is a free of cost introduction to computer programming workshop for women and their friends who have no or minimal programming experience. It teaches the Python programming language. The workshop runs every 2 months with the [http://bostonpython.com Boston Python user group], and it has been a hugely successful and transformative event. Volunteers also help other people run outreach events in their cities, and recently received a [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/outreach-and-education/2011-October/000099.html grant] (given to those independent organizers, not OpenHatch itself) from the Python Software Foundation to bring the workshop to 3 new cities in the US. Check out:

* [http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/about/ the Boston Python Workshop mission].

* [http://bostonpythonworkshop.com/events/ a photo slideshow from the workshops].

===Open Source Comes to Campus===

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[http://campus.openhatch.org/ Open Source Comes to Campus] is a series of workshop run on college campuses to help teach students the community knowledge and technical skills to participate in globally distributed software projects.

==Project Rolodex==