Demystifying Open Source: Making Your First Contribution

Full disclosure: This tutorial is inspired by a couple of workshops that I attended at the Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration this year. Thursday was Open Source Day at the conference and, though I didn’t get to attend all of the workshops, I attended those aimed at beginners and learned a lot. I learned enough, in fact, that I intend to participate in Hacktoberfest this year. Hopefully after…