A graduate student perspective on overcoming barriers to interacting with open-source software

This resource first appeared in issue #23 on 08 May 2020 and has tags Technical Leadership: Open Source Management, Technical Leadership: Software Development

A graduate student perspective on overcoming barriers to interacting with open-source software - Oihane Cereceda, Danielle E.A. Quinn

It’s easy to forget how confusing and intimidating it can be to work with open source projects for the first time - filing an issue, submitting a PR (is this change too trivial? Am I submitting the PR right?). This is a description from the point of view of a grad student on the issues with interacting with open source communities for the first time