How to teach undergrads how to become open source contributors without writing any code

“This is the story of a college class taught inside an open
source community. Last fall, I taught Release Engineering to a
small group of undergraduates at Olin College, an engineering
school a few miles outside Boston. The goal was to teach them how
to become functional technical contributors to an open source
project–without writing any code. In the hopes that others will be
inspired to teach similar classes, I’ve written our experiences up
as a case study in three pieces: cultural, technical, and “getting
real.”

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