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<!-- '''Short link: https://bit.ly/laptop-setup''' broken by wiki move, in a subtle way --> ~~Bloomington attendees! Sign in here:~~ ~~[[https://etherpad.mozilla.org/4MJOs2O5Ex Sign up]]~~ == Goal #1: install an IRC client == * [[/OSX IRC\|OS X]] * [[/Linux IRC\|Linux]] If you are having trouble and want to access IRC to help troubleshoot, you can use [http://webchat.freenode.net/?nick=&channels=openhatch webchat]. == Goal #2: practice navigating from the command line == * [[/OSX command line\|OS X]] * [[/Linux command line\|Linux]] (Note: If you want to use git on Windows, you'll need to use Git Bash, which operates with Linux commands. So you may want to familiarize yourself with them.) == Goal #3: install git == * [[/Linux git\|Linux]] == Goal #4: ~~practice~~Sign ~~using~~up afor ~~plain~~GitHub ~~text editor~~== To do this, visit [https://github.com/ GitHub] and make an account. They will send you a confirmation email which you will have to click on. Make sure you know how to use a plain text editor. If you don't have experience using one of those, ask an instructor for help installing one.▼ == Goal #5: practice using a plain text editor== ~~Our suggestions:~~ ▲Make sure you know how to use a plain text editor. If you don't have experience using one of those, ask an instructor for help installing one. Our suggestion is [https://code.visualstudio.com/ Visual Studio Code] for Linux, Windows, and OS X. * gedit on Linux * Notepad++ on Windows * Smultron on OS X ([http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/smultron/smultron/3.6b1/Smultron-3.6b1.zip?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fsmultron%2F&ts=1379773289&use_mirror=hivelocity download]) == Success! == Here are some things you can do once laptop setup is over: * Take a look at some [[Books on Open Source \| books]] on open source software. * Find and join an IRC channel for something you are interested in. on Freenode, try #ubuntu (the Linux distribution), #web (web development), #gsoc (Google Summer of Code) You can get a full list of Freenode's channels [http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/?net=freenode here] * [~~http~~https://~~code~~developers.google.com/open-source/soc/ Learn about Google Summer of Code] and [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/~~gsoc2012~~gsoc2013 look at last year's accepted mentor projects].

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