Educating the next generation of open source contributors
summary
Chaos project runs an education program that launches structured courses and office hours to onboard newcomers, with 27 courses launched January 2025 and a community of ~3,000 people; students placed in teams of five during a summer internship make real PRs and mentors push them through toolchains, producing measurable outcomes like a new design working group that now supplies project assets and at least one contributor promoted to co‑lead a working group, showing the model scales when mentors multiply.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and panel setup
- 1:05Chaos Africa’s contributor growth
- 7:51University open source education
- 11:44Chaos Education program impact
- 18:13Role of mentoring in open source
- 30:02Scaling mentorship in communities
- 36:11Closing remarks
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