OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education.
We provide online tools for new contributors
Build skills
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browse tasks across open source by skill, difficulty, or project »
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Open Source Comes to Campus
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Through workshops at colleges, we teach the next generation of students how to participate in open source communities.
In-Person Event Handbook
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We share advice on running successful sprints, hackathons, and workshops with new contributors to open source projects.
Outreach events email discussion list
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We help people who organize free software-related outreach events learn from each other.
Affiliated Events
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We help organizers run outreach events, including workshops with Python user groups to improve their gender diversity.
Recent site activity
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lmpanellawile added an answer to the question “I'd like to participate in Evolution. How do I begin?” · 2 days ago
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Pablo Hoffman (pablohoffman) added an answer to the question “What is a bug or issue with Scrapy that you've been putting off, neglecting, or just plain avoiding?” · 4 days ago
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Tips, facts, thoughts after 3 successful semesters of OSCTC
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OpenHatch needs people to greet and direct prospective contributors to projects and events, hack on our Python+Django codebase, suggest improvements to all aspects of our work, and more.