Five years, 1000 students: The story of Open Source Comes to Campus
summary
OpenHatch runs Open Source Comes to Campus and claims 1000 students in five years, scaling to about 25 events and 500 students in 2015. Curriculum changes include moving to GitHub-centric exercises (small-group repos, pull requests), train‑the‑trainer materials, sticky red/green help notes, and tools like Discourse and Bridge Troll. Outcomes: more events, better retention when project maintainers commit to onboarding, measurable gender diversity gains, and a reproducible organizer workflow that largely works.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Start
- 3:03HOW OSCTC BEGAN
- 7:33ROTATE STUDENTS, OR ROTATE TEACHERS?
- 8:14COMPUTER SETUP
- 8:57INTER-TOPIC DEPENDENCIES
- 12:43PEOPLE WANT THIS EVENT
- 14:25CONTRIBUTING TO OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS
- 15:14MOTIVATION
- 15:35COMPILING IS HARD
- 16:11COMMUNITY
- 17:50WHY DO WE NEED STAFF?
- 18:35JULY 2011: SELF-FUND FOR A YEAR
- 19:132011: 1 EVENT.
- 24:562012: 4 EVENTS.
- 25:17TRAIN THE TRAINERS
- 27:42MEL CHƯA GREYHOUSE
- 33:57LEARN BY OTHERS DOING
- 35:08REPLACE HISTORY & ETHICS WITH CAREER PANEL
- 35:36REPLACE CAREER PANEL WITH SMALL- GROUP-CHAT
- 39:14ON DIVERSITY: SOCIOECONOMIC
- 40:07BRIDGETROLL & DISCOURSE
- 41:06THE FUTURE
- 42:50STAFF SEARCH SOON
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