Course #1
How to contribute? How to release a project under an open source license?
Allowing students to master transforming internal projects into open source projects, providing them with management, technical & legal best practices related to contributing to free and open source third-party projects, and guiding them for gaining optimum benefits from daily open source use.
Target group
Product owners, project managers, lead developers
Duration
2 days (14 hours)
Pricing
Prerequisites
None
Course outline
Day 1: contribute to a third-party project, reuse third-party components
Legal framework of corporate contribution
Outbound contributions issues
Outbound contributions management
Best practices & open source release standards
Inbound contributions management
Day 2: Releasing a software program as open source
License & contribution licensing agreement impact on attractivity of the released work
Appraising the merits of releasing a project as open source
Cautionary precautions prior to an open source release
Choosing a license for the project release
Course #2
How to interact with communities?
Enabling technical profiles developing open source software to understand community operations, and providing them with best practices for fully benefitting from their relationships with the communities
Target group
Product owners, project managers, lead developers
Duration
1 day (7 hours)
Pricing
Prerequisites
None
Course outline
How software communities work
Community actors
Community profiles
Contributors
Basics of community relationships
Open dev stack
Upstream interaction preparation
Project openness rate
Community communication
Tool types
Interaction style & substance
Event organization
Event experience feedback
Talks
Barcamps
Hackatons
Releasing a project on GitHub
Preparing .md files
Organization
Source of truth
Branches
Pull requests
Workflow
Best practices
Third-party tool integration
Community interactions
Message mood
Mediocre quality Pull Requests
Granting commit & merge rights
