How to Start Contributing to Open Source: Examples From the Apache Software Foundation and Beyond

Presented at A New HOPE (2022), July 24, 2022, 11:30 a.m. (60 minutes)

Open source software sounds great to use, and hopefully even better to contribute to! This session will discuss and demystify the various ways to get involved with open source software, with notable examples taken from within the Apache Software Foundation, though this session will speak to the larger ecosystem more generally.


Presenters:

  • Austin Bennett
    **Austin Bennett** designs systems to help move, share, gather insights from data, and develop products efficiently. He is also a cognitive linguist with a focus on multimodal communication. He is passionate about education and sharing knowledge, having reached thousands of people in interactions ranging from one-on-one to large group training. Austin is a Google developer expert (Google Cloud) and an Apache Beam committer; he encourages people to get involved with open source software however sensible. When not on a computing machine, Austin can most often be found on the water in the San Francisco Bay, in the nearby hills on a bike, or on a doubles squash court.

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