Let Me In: Open the Doors of your Organization for Student Contributors
summary
Explains concrete steps organizations take to bring students in: label good first issue and welcome PRs (typo fixes and docs are valid), run programs like Hacktoberfest (three PRs → swag) and Google Season of Docs / Google Summer of Code (AsyncAPI processed ~200 applicants and launched a mentorship track for non‑selectees), enable GitHub Sponsors for paid support, add a code of conduct, use a Discord bot to flag non‑inclusive language, and require maintainers to be specific, ask‑not‑tell, and offer mentorship so contributions actually land.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Open source basics
- 5:48Common problems students face in open source
- 10:56Inclusive organizations
- 14:53Student motivation
- 19:29How to make your organization more welcoming
- 26:14Call to action
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