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Line 1: '''If you have never heard of open source''': OpenHatch runs ~~outreach~~education 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. m '''If you have''': OpenHatch is a non-profit organization~~, and open source project,~~ with the goals of lowering the barriers to entry into the open source ~~contribution~~community 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.

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