Tech for community impact
Written by Open Source Team
WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE LEARNERS ?
Open Source Learners is a group of welcoming & inclusive community of tech enthusiasts, advocate, expert, and learners who are focused in creating a community open to everyone around the globe.
Our Mission
Our mission is to train, mentor, educate and equip people with technical skills to utilize and leverage the use of Modern Day Technology to ignite positive change in our communities.
Our Pledge
We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion and etcetera.
We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, and healthy community.
Our Standards
Examples of behaviour that contributes to a positive environment for our community includes:
- Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
- Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
- Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
- Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience
- Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community
Examples of unacceptable behaviour include:
- The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
- Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
- Public or private harassment
- Publishing other's private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
- Other conducts which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting.
Enforcement Responsibilities
Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behaviour and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behaviour that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
Community leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.
Scope
This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces and also applies when an individual is officially representing the community in public spaces. Examples of representing our community include using an official e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event.
Enforcement
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behaviour may be reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement at opsl@gmail.com All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.
All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.
Why you should join open source learners?
- open source boost your career
- working in open source let you have a real experience of what it take to be a professional Tech workers
- apart from hard skill you can also build soft skill as well
- not only that you also get to network and connect with people of the same mind-set
- To learn new skills or improve on existing ones.
- To find a mentor if you need one.
- To share your skills.
- To build up your reputation and help grow your career.
- know who is watching, maybe it's your next employer or partner
Contributing to open source can be a rewarding way to learn, teach, and build experience in just about any skill you can imagine.
Why do people contribute to open source? Plenty of reasons! Improve software you rely on
Lots of open source contributors’ start by being users of software they contribute to. When you find a bug in an open source software you use, you may want to look at the source to see if you can patch it yourself. If that’s the case, then contributing the patch back is the best way to ensure that your friends (and yourself when you update to the next release) will be able to benefit from it
Improve existing skills
Whether it’s coding, user interface design, graphic design, writing, or organizing, if you’re looking for practice, there’s a task for you on an open source project.
Meet people who are interested in similar things
Open source projects with warm, welcoming communities keep people coming back for years. Many people form lifelong friendships through their participation in open source, whether it’s running into each other at conferences or late night online chats about burritos.
Find mentors and teach others
Working with others on a shared project means you’ll have to explain how you do things, as well as ask other people for help. The acts of learning and teaching can be a fulfilling activity for everyone involved.
Build public artefacts that help you grow a reputation (and a career)
By definition, all of your open source work is public, which means you get free examples to take anywhere as a demonstration of what you can do.
Learn people skills
Open source offers opportunities to practice leadership and management skills, such as resolving conflicts, organizing teams of people, and prioritizing work.
It’s empowering to be able to make changes, even small ones
You don’t have to become a lifelong contributor to enjoy participating in open source. Have you ever seen a typo on a website, and wished someone would fix it? On an open source project, you can do just that.
Open source helps people feel agency over their lives and how they experience the world, and that in itself is gratifying.
Welcome to the OPEN SOURCE TEAM
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