This is a great writeup for would be contributors.
I recently ran a questionnaire for potential and new open source contributors, pretty unanimously the responses were split between
People who havent contributed: had maybe tried, were nervous about getting started, lacked good guidance from the project and in general
People who had: Found life a lot easier once they got over the initial hump, were extremely grateful of the help they got, were hugely positive about the impact OS had on them
I was originally planning to do a project to help first time contributors (goodfirstpatch.com), however realistically I dont have any time right now. I found openhatch.org to be a good place for people to get introduced, there was definitely improvements it can make but it was a real help for an open source workshop I ran.
Yeah openhatch is good. There was a bit of talk on it on the episode on Twisted (because Jessica is also involved in that) on the FLOSS weekly podcast, check out that episode if you're interested.
I recently ran a questionnaire for potential and new open source contributors, pretty unanimously the responses were split between
People who havent contributed: had maybe tried, were nervous about getting started, lacked good guidance from the project and in general
People who had: Found life a lot easier once they got over the initial hump, were extremely grateful of the help they got, were hugely positive about the impact OS had on them
Did a small writeup about it @ http://arandomurl.com/2013/10/24/problems-getting-started-in...
I was originally planning to do a project to help first time contributors (goodfirstpatch.com), however realistically I dont have any time right now. I found openhatch.org to be a good place for people to get introduced, there was definitely improvements it can make but it was a real help for an open source workshop I ran.