wwcodeportland/open-source-study-nights

⚡ 📻 Open Source Study Night every month in downtown Portland

Welcome to WWC PDX's ⚡ Open Source Study Nights

We meet monthly every third Thursday in downtown Portland. Come program with us on open source projects!

What will you do?:

• Report bugs and issues 🐛
• Fork a project and use it locally
• Read, follow and improve documentation
• Write commit messages for changes made
• Run tests and write tests
• Work with common development tools like: continuous integration, linters and style guides
• Resolving problems with processes like merge conflicts, squash commits, communicating with maintainers, and triaging
• Push and write pull requests

📆 How do I join your next event?

Check out our latest meetup RSVP information here: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Portland

💻 How do I get started?

1. Code editor: Install a code editor. If you don't have one already, we recommend: VS Code.
2. GitHub: Make a GitHub account and install git.
3. RSVP & Logistics: RSVP on Meetup.com to get the latest updates on the meetup location (parking, Metro access) and all those logistical details.
4. Code of Conduct: Read our Code of Conduct.

🌆 How do I get to the meetup?

• Address: Mozilla: 1120 NW Couch St #320, Portland, OR 97209
• Take the elevator to the 3rd floor
• Nearest MAX station: Red or Blue Line - Pioneer Square Station
• Parking: Parking is a challenge in downtown. We recommend the MAX, streetcar, carpool and voracious free parking-spot hunting.
• Thank you to our location sponsor, Mozilla!!

💻 First time? Begin here:

• For your first Pull Request @ WWC PDX: (Coming Soon)
• For project ideas: Check out our resources page.

⚡ Open Source projects we recommend for beginners:

Exercism	Hoodie	Homebrew
Ruby Sinatra	JavaScript	Ruby
Start here	Start here	Start here

⚡ More ideas on where to start:

Project	Language
AUR (ArchLinux User Repository) packages	Bash
bash auto completion scripts	Bash
el-get recipes	Emacs Lisp
F-Droid metadata	plain text
homebrew recipes	Ruby
prism.js components	JavaScript
pygments lexers	Python
zsh auto completion scripts	Zsh
Website to search opened bugs in Mozilla Projects. This is maintained by Josh Matthews.	You can search bugs by your language of choice.

🙌 Help!

1. When you are stuck on code: Make an issue on what you‘re stuck on here - https://github.com/wwcodeportland/open-source-study-nights/issues
2. When you are lost, on your way and stuck in traffic and need to let someone know about something, left something at the venue, confused about parking, leave a comment on the https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Portland event invite for that night or message Keeley on Twitter for an immediate response @keeleyhammmond.
3. When you have questions/concerns about code of conduct or other topics, talk to Keeley or Michelle by messaging us on Meetup.com.

🙏 Thanks

Many thanks to Machiko Yasuda and FullStack LA for providing this as a template for our open source study nights!