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This is a place to share notes about OpenHatch.

Wondering what OpenHatch is? Check out the main site or ask us directly on #openhatch IRC channel on Freenode. You might also want to subscribe to our mailing list or Events List.

We're re-organizing! Pardon the mess.

Contribute

Want to get involved with OpenHatch? The easiest and best way to do that is to join us on IRC. We have two regular monthly meetings - a release meeting, and an "IRC office hour" - which you can get alerted about by joining the mailing list. Or you can just come by! There's almost always someone hanging about.

You can also browse around our source code and our documentation.

Specific ways you can get involved

• Work on one of the issues in our issue tracker.
• Work on a hand-picked first task from one of our affiliated projects.
• Do you contribute to or maintain an open source project? Make it an affiliated project.
• Add information to a wiki page:
  • scientific open source projects by domain
  • Books on Open Source
  • Open Science for Undergrads

OpenHatch events

• Open Source Comes to Campus is a series of weekend workshops at colleges to teach students how to get involved in open source software.
• Python Workshops
  • Boston Python workshop
    • Intermediate Python Workshop (Boston)
  • Philadelphia Python Workshop
  • Chicago Python Workshop
  • Columbus Python Workshop
  • Indianapolis Python Workshop
  • Dayton Python Workshop
  • Montreal Python Workshop
  • SF Python workshop, October 2012
• Other events
  • Skillshare intro to Python

Releases

• 0.11.07
• 0.11.09
• 0.13.08

More OpenHatch guides and materials

• Django for Designers

Other useful pages

• We use PiratePads to do collective editing.
• Case studies of how people got involved in open source projects
• Mission suggestions
• Student immersion
• Getting the word out
• Abandonware - How to revive an abandoned project.
• Meetings
• Big picture (Feb 2011) thinking
• Build it

Thinking-out-loud pages

• Thinking about missions
• Choosing a forum
• GSoC 2013
• Python user groups 2013

Pages that are inactive

You can find archived pages in Category:Archived.