Setup
Slack is the communication tool (similar to a chat room, forum or IRC channel) that we will be using today.
- Join our Slack at umm-openhatch.slack.com
You can also download the Slack desktop client and/or mobile app!
Many of the tools of open source development are primarily used via the command line. Let's get some practice with navigating the computer from the command line.
(Note: If you want to use git on Windows, you'll need to use Git Bash, which operates with Linux commands. So you may want to familiarize yourself with them.)
Git is a popular revision control system that is used by many open source projects. We'll use it during this workshop.
You'll also need to make a GitHub account if you don't already have one.
Make sure you know how to use a plain text editor. If you don't have experience using one of those, ask an instructor for help installing one.
Our suggestions:
- gedit on Linux
- Notepad++ on Windows
- Smultron on OS X (download)
- Sublime2 Version 2.0.2 (cross platform) (download)
- Atom (cross platform) (download)
You are done with laptop setup!
Take a break, stretch, meet some neighbors, and ask the staff if you have any questions about this material.
Here are some things you can do once laptop setup is over:
- Take a look at some Books on Open Source on open source software.
- Find and join an IRC channel for something you are interested in. ** on Freenode, try #ubuntu (the Linux distribution), #web (web development), #gsoc (Google Summer of Code) ** You can get a full list of Freenode's channels (here)
- Learn about Google Summer of Code and look at last year's accepted mentor projects.
