Last week I ran a 3-hour training on how to get started contributing to OpenStack at EuroPython. The aim was to give a high-level overview of how the contribution process works in the project and guide people through making their first contribution, from account creation to submitting a patch.

Belatedly, here are the notes for the design session/tutorial I gave about testing in Horizon at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, back in April. The etherpad is available over there. Session description:

The monthly Open-Source night experiment continues. On Wednesday, June 19th we had the June edition of Open-Source Night. Rory gave us a slightly-longer-than-15-minutes talk on OpenStreetMap, and the kind of contributions the project welcomes (data data data, really!). I was the only one to volunteer for a lightning talk, in …

On Wednesday the 20th, we had the 2nd edition of Open-Source Night in Tog. I think it went well. Once again there was about a dozen attendees, many of whom have never contributed to open-source before. A third of them were also in Tog for the first time. It might …

On Wednesday, Tog hosted the first monthly Open-Source Night.

It's an event I'd been wanting to organise for a while, with an eye on it being hands-on and slanted toward helping interested people get started in open-source, but I wasn't sure what format would work best. I'm still not sure …