How to find Open Source projects to contribute
I wrote about how people can find Open Source projects, whether through projects they use, open source initiatives and programs, GitHub Explore or websites that aggregate projects and issues.
Isabel Costa
Portugal
Isabel is a Software Engineer from Portugal, currently working at Deliveroo in London, UK. She’s an admin at AnitaB.org Open Source community, a mentor at Black CodHer Bootcamp, and an instructor at 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
Make the most out of your GitHub Profile @ Devoxx UK
I spoke at Devoxx UK about how to make the most of a GitHub profile. I shared tips and tricks on how to customize the user profile and project settings in a way that enhances the profile, thinking from a job-hunting perspective and using GitHub as portfolio.
The Hacktoberfest maintainer wishlist
In this webinar me and Joshua discussed what are meaningful ways new contributors can participate in an open source project, with a specific focus on Hacktoberfest.
Sync fork with the original repository using git
Blog post where I explained step by step how to sync fork repository with upstream one, using git along with mention of GitHub option to do it from the user interface.
3 steps for managing a beginner-friendly open source community
Post written for opensource.com about 3 steps for managing a beginner-friendly open source community as a follow up to Upstream talk on the same topic
How to Get into Open Source @ Women Who Code London
I spoke at Women Who Code London community on how to get involved with open source. I demonstrated how people can contribute in many ways other than coding on GitHub.
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 @ Women Who Code conference
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.
