Create "OSS Newbie" class & materials

[SecurityCRob]

Create education materials to document common open source processes, workflows and tools so that new-comers to open source can effectively collaborate and enter into communities they are interested in. The materials could include such topics as:

• entering your 1st PR
• contributing to a project basics
• • what is a maintainer & other common project roles
• how code gets collaboratively developed, tested, and released

Here's my first pass in terms of how we could organize this content....

1. What is Open Source

• what is open source software, how does it work, who uses it, how does it differ from "internal" software
• using open source vs. open sourcing something vs. contributing to open source (what you need to know)
• very high level overview of licensing and other considerations

2. Ways of Working

• "open source culture"
• how to engage with a community / project
• roles and responsibilities (core contributors, maintainers, reviewers etc)
• Dos and Don'ts to make friends and influence software
• Concepts and processes needed (forking, merging etc, issues, PRs etc)

3. Open Source Development Toolkit

• Tech and tools required, including GitHub/Git, etc etc
• (more orientation of the landscape vs. training on the tools)

4. Getting started

• why start
• where to start
• how to start
• wrap with some best practices

[david-a-wheeler]

The Linux Foundation has some "OSS Newbie" courses. I reviewed some a while back & sent them a fleet of comments, hopefully they accepted the changes instead of thinking I was crazy :-).

I don't know their exact status today. I know you can find many LF courses here: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/resources/

I would definitely try to id "what already exists that meets the need" & then work on just the gaps (if any).

[EjiroOS]

@david-a-wheeler Hi, can this be assigned to me please?

[Salkimmich]

Hi @SecurityCRob and @david-a-wheeler - I'm working with @EjiroOS and trying to help them get started with OpenSSF contributions. This looks like an old Issue, but an ongoing need. Is there any additional training you are looking to build out at the moment that we can help with - or a good meeting to join in on to find out?

Separately, we're developing cybersecurity awareness training for the University of Gambia, there might be OS + Security awareness information out of that which could make a great blog for OpenSSF!

[drusso-rh]

Discussed this during today's EDU call, the suggestion is to do some research to see what exists today. Once this is done, if there is a need for this course this task can proceed.

@EjiroOS and @Salkimmich , can you take the lead on doing this research?

[david-a-wheeler]

LF has many examples, including:

LFD102: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/beginners-guide-open-source-software-development/

LFD101: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/introduction-to-open-source-development-git-and-linux/

Open Source Introduction (LFC202): https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/open-source-introduction-lfc202/
"This course covers the basic elements of open source and serves as one of the building blocks for future courses in the Open Source Management & Strategy learning series (LFC202 – LFC208)."