How to Get into Open Source
I spoke at Women Who Code London community on how to get involved with open source.
Isabel Costa
Portugal
Isabel is a Software Engineer from Portugal, currently working at Globality in London, UK. She’s an admin at AnitaB.org Open Source community and mentors at Black CodHer Bootcamp and As Raparigas de Codigo. She is passionate about sharing her journey in Open Source, helping people feel less intimidated by it, and mentoring newcomers into tech. As a Google Summer of Code student in 2018, she started a project that she now maintains and utilizes to help people make their first contributions and find new ways to contribute to Open Source.
Community Contributions
Como contribuir para Open Source
I spoke at GeekGirlsPortugal meetup in portuguese <3 about how to contribute to Open Source, including many ways how to contribute, where to start, how to fork a repository and create a Pull Request to make a first contribution on GitHub.
Make the most out of your GitHub Profile
I presented at Women Who Code CONNECT REIMAGINE conference about how to make the most out of GitHub profile. I showed case GitHub profile features and how to present a repository that can make a profile attractive to potential recruiters or engineers looking to hire.
Managing a beginner friendly open source community
Presented at Upstream, the experience of managing a beginner-friendly open source community.
Contributing to Open Source in Quality Assurance
I wrote about multiple ways people can contribute to Open Source via Quality Assurance (QA), where to learn more about this topic, and what are the QA processes we have at AnitaB.org Open Source.
Make the most out of your GitHub Profile
I did a lightning talk at Coding Black Females community to show attendees some features GitHub has that can make them stand out and make their profile look nice and attractive to potential recruiters/engineers looking to hire. I will also share some tips on appealing READMEs for their side projects.
Why, Where and How to contribute to Open Source
This talk was giver at Talk A Bit conference (https://talkabit.org/), where I talked about reasons people might want to contribute to open source, where they can contribute (projects and communities) and how, in terms of types of contributions (coding, testing, design, outreach, content, etc...) and the usual workflow.
Como e porquê começar a contribuir para OSS?
I talk about how and why contribute to Open Source (in Portuguese). I explain how people can start contributing to Open Source, the multiple ways one can contribute, and how they can start. In the end, I made a simple contribution by fixing a typo to one of Android Training Program class GitHub repositories. This talk was made in Portuguese language.
Ficheiros base num projeto Open Source
I wrote about the files (README, code of conduct, license, etc) an open source project should have to help contributors understand the project and how they can contribute to it. This is written in Portuguese.
Dicas para manutenção de projetos open source
I spoke about tips on how to maintain an open source project. Tips included how to promote a project and get people involved, how to make it beginner-friendly, and 7 lessons from being a maintainer. This talk was given in portuguese.
Contribuir para Open Source como colaborador e maintainer
I spoke about contributing to Open Source as a contributor and maintainer at DevFest Portugal 2020. I talked about 7 lessons for each role I contributed as. This talk was given in portuguese.
Contributing to open source as a contributor and maintainer
I spoke at vJUG meetup (EN) about my experience and perspective from contributing to Open Source projects as a contributor and a maintainer, while sharing tips on how to start contributing to a new project and keeping a project appealing to new contributors.
My First Open Source Contribution
I wrote about my first open source contribution to a project, during 24 Pull Requests.
Isabel Costa: Contributing to Open Source
I was interviewed at Coding Black Females podcast on the topic of contributing to Open Source. We discussed about my journey contributing so far, how one can get started with it, initiatives where people can get involved, and ways to contribute to it.
Why, Where and How to contribute to Open Source
I spoke about why, where, and how to contribute to Open Source at JNation conference. I talked about motivations people might have to contribute, which types of open source projects we can find and the multiple ways we can contribute to Open Source.
Intro to Open Source
This event was co-organized by AnitaB.org Nairobi and AnitaB.org London local communities. I was one of the 3 speakers. We talked about how to get started with open source and opportunities of contributing at AnitaB.org Open Source.
Open Source programs and initiatives
I wrote about five open source initiatives that help people get involved with open source. Two of them I participated in, such as 24 Pull Requests where I did my first contribution, and Google Summer of Code where I participated as a student in 2018 and 2020 as an organization admin.
Overcoming blockers about contributing to Open Source
I wrote about common blockers people have about contributing to Open Source, and tips on how to overcome these. Common blockers include: how to get started, lack of time, lack of confidence, not seeing many beginner issues.
Journey as a Google Summer of Code student with Systers
I talked about my experience as a Google Summer of Code 2018 student with Systers open source community (now called AnitaB.org Open Source).
Mentorship System (backend)
Mentorship System is an app where people can find mentor each other in 1:1s for a specific period of time. This is the backend written in Python. This started during Google Summer of Code 2018.
Mentorship System (Android)
Mentorship System is an app where people can find mentor each other in 1:1s for a specific period of time. This is the android application written with Kotlin. This started during Google Summer of Code 2018.