Create "OSS Newbie" class & materials

[SecurityCRob]

Create education materials to document common open source processes, workflows and tools so that new-comers to open source can effectively collaborate and enter into communities they are interested in. The materials could include such topics as:

• entering your 1st PR
• contributing to a project basics
• • what is a maintainer & other common project roles
• how code gets collaboratively developed, tested, and released

[max-miz]

Here's my first pass in terms of how we could organize this content....

1. What is Open Source

• what is open source software, how does it work, who uses it, how does it differ from "internal" software
• using open source vs. open sourcing something vs. contributing to open source (what you need to know)
• very high level overview of licensing and other considerations

2. Ways of Working

• "open source culture"
• how to engage with a community / project
• roles and responsibilities (core contributors, maintainers, reviewers etc)
• Dos and Don'ts to make friends and influence software
• Concepts and processes needed (forking, merging etc, issues, PRs etc)

3. Open Source Development Toolkit

• Tech and tools required, including GitHub/Git, etc etc
• (more orientation of the landscape vs. training on the tools)

4. Getting started

• why start
• where to start
• how to start
• wrap with some best practices

[david-a-wheeler]

The Linux Foundation has some "OSS Newbie" courses. I reviewed some a while back & sent them a fleet of comments, hopefully they accepted the changes instead of thinking I was crazy :-).

I don't know their exact status today. I know you can find many LF courses here: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/resources/

I would definitely try to id "what already exists that meets the need" & then work on just the gaps (if any).