First contributions is a project to help beginners to get started with contributing to open source projects.

We have a hands-on tutorial, a web app to find projects to contribute to and a slack community to ask questions and get help.

Here's a code snippet that could go in to opensourcediversity.org

<a class="col-md-4" href="https://firstcontributions.github.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
	<img alt="" src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/37713493?v=4" />
	<h3>First Contributions</h3>
	<p>🚀✨ Help beginners to contribute to open source projects </p>
</a>

At the meetup (02.05.18) we (@jancborchardt @sleepypioneer @suntala and I) collected some ideas of what we want to make of the meetup, and how to go about it. Not everything here needs to happen that way and nothing is set in stone, but I think it's a good idea to write what was said down and be able to point to it and talk about it more.

• have topics for each meetup, focus on working on a specific project
  • Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Nextcloud, Wikidata, Fedora, GitLab, Mozilla, Bahmni, Discourse, …
  • non-code contributions like editing Wikipedia or OpenStreetMap, design, writing documentation, translation etc.
  • other projects from e.g. RailsGirls summer of code or Outreachy
  • Projects directly concerned with diversity: Speakerinnen, Diversitytickets, Open Source Diversity website, Bl00dyHealth, WheelMap, Co-lab by Arati, SignDict, …
  • Big projects but also smaller, quicker-to-get-involved ones
• Maybe even 2 times in a row because first time might be needed for setup
• Could be about host company (Wikimedia, Nextcloud, …)
• Help projects add Code of Conduct, good first issues, …
• Do another hackathon day!
• rename Open Source Ladies to »Open Source Diversity Berlin«?
• Workshop through OpenTechSchool on how to contribute to open source
• partnerships with language-specific meetups like PyLadies, RailsGirls/code_curious
• aggregate articles and events on website
• STICKERS & tshirts!
• Open Source Diversity Summit
• Talk at more conferences

Just floating an idea:
There are some great Newsletters run by the likes of DiversifyTech, CodeNewBie, and other main stream organizations like the CODE Reviews by Women Who Code.
Can we have a section highlighting these Newsletters?

The URL for the font in the css points to ../fonts/Nunito-Bold.ttf but the font files are located in the css folder. Either the URL should be updated accordingly, or the files should be moved to a new fonts folder in the root (probably depending on what y'all prefer, structure-wise).

This would be a really good first issue for someone looking to contribute ✨

Like https://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/aapd-disability-equality-index-2017.html...
It is in the same line as ageism, we don't talk about it but it is also a form of exclusion.

I would Like to join this organization

Yourfirstpr repository has been archived, removing it from the basics section of the website seems to be a better idea.

Both the Grace Hopper Conferences(GHC and GHCI) and the Tapia Conference are excellent opportunities for women for presenting their work, and networking with other professionals, students and companies from around the world. Both conferences are held annually. GHC has a sister conference held annually in India, called Grace Hopper Conference India(GHCI).
All the 3 conferences are largely for promoting diversity and inclusion.
GHC: https://ghc.anitab.org/
Tapia: http://tapiaconference.org/
GHCI: https://ghcindia.anitab.org/

All these conferences have a travel scholarship awarded to students and academicians.

Hi folks: Finding an active open source contributor or maintainer woman is hard or nearly none. Internships give a break in open source, if observed there is no retention of women in open source and research[1] suggests. Implementing open source day per month letting woman work with mentor and contribute in an open source project they would like would be practical implementation than just publishing research and articles. Lemme know if you would interested in supporting and I will share further things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_in_open-source_software

the hot zone when hovering over the contribute link makes it near impossible to click on the link for the twitter account.

I would submit a patch but unfortunately as a google employee I am not permitted to patch AGPL projects. If there is interest in changing licenses I am more than happy to open another PR with some suggestions.

We now have a Continuous Integration pipeline, as per #122. However, there are some errors that need to be fixed for valid HTML and accessibility:

line 34 column 33 - Warning: missing </button> before <div>
line 35 column 68 - Warning: inserting implicit <button>
line 36 column 33 - Warning: discarding unexpected </button>
line 201 column 53 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&I"
line 95 column 149 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 34 column 33 - Warning: trimming empty <button>
line 35 column 68 - Warning: trimming empty <span>
line 35 column 81 - Warning: trimming empty <span>
line 35 column 94 - Warning: trimming empty <span>
line 35 column 107 - Warning: trimming empty <span>
line 35 column 68 - Warning: trimming empty <button>
line 343 column 41 - Warning: <a> proprietary attribute "dnt"
Info: Document content looks like HTML5
Tidy found 12 warnings and 0 errors!

source: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/opensourcediversity/opensourcediversity.org/2/workflows/6ed0dc82-28da-40dc-a6bc-4226f2928d08/jobs/2

I noticed that the forum is missing on https://opensourcediversity.org.

Checked the links on the page and several are being redirected so they need to be updated on the site:

http://www.outreachy.org/ -> https://www.outreachy.org/
http://up-for-grabs.net/ -> https://up-for-grabs.net/
https://www.meetup.com/opensourceladies/ -> https://www.meetup.com/opensourcediversity/

Use Twitter API to add latest tweets from Open Source Diversity to the website.

Need to decide where this should go on page. Also include a follow button?

I'm a Web Dev enthusiast & a junior pursuing my Bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering. I'm interested in Web Devlopment, Machine Learning & DevOps & I enjoy learning new things & stuff as well as I'm a Frontend Devloper with experience building Dynamic & Static Web pages. I am always interested in learning the answers to how, why, and what relates to the Technologies around me.

I would like to grow my programming skills by doing lots of Open Source contributions. Looking forward to learning, collaborating, and growing as a community.

I thought it would be nice to provide additional guidance for newbies diving into open source... https://www.firsttimersonly.com/ provides a beginner friendly outline and resource that I personally used to get into open source. While it mentions UpForGrabs and Code of Conduct like in Open Source Diversity, it also mentions platforms like CodeTriage and many other things that I believe can be vital in guiding beginners towards open source contributing. What do you think?

Maybe it would make sense for us to be on Open Collective? That way we can do funding for sticker printing, domain costs etc. We do that with Open Source Design and it works quite well: https://opencollective.com/opensourcedesign/ – what do you think?

On the application page at https://opencollective.com/opensource/apply they say that:

You'll need a GitHub account and a repository with over 100 stars.

So if we would like to be on there we should get people to star this repository. :)

Also cc @piamancini from Open Collective – is the 100 stars a hard requirement? We have almost 500 Twitter followers ;) https://twitter.com/osdiversity

I was hoping to print and distribute logos/stickers and whatnot. I'd like these resources to be CC-BY or so for doing it :)

The Hyperlink associated with the Title of the READM.md is broken, it leads to
https://github.com/opensourcediversity/opensourcediversity.org/blob/master/opensourcediversity.org and results in a 404. I guess it was meant to point at https://opensourcediversity.org/ instead. But due to a missing https:// in the hyperlink it getting linked in line.

There are no checks or CI pipelines to test new contributions and preview new builds of the site. This would enable contributing with more confidence. Newcomers can know that their contributions are validated and working, and maintainers can quickly know this too without having to clone the changes locally and test things out.

Two tools I would like to use for this are Circle CI and Netlify for preview deployments in Pull Requests.

I would like to join this organization. I love open source and will love to contribute in this organization. Please add me in your organization.
My GitHub handle is :- @sameer882000

A start at an attempt of what our criteria for selecting projects is. :) This could be the start of an "About" page.

Our short description is: For more diversity & inclusion in free & open source software communities 😊

• Open Source: Not only about diversity in tech generally, like
  • https://www.diversifytech.co, https://www.womenwhocode.com/, https://anitab.org/, https://www.girldevelopit.com/, http://www.blackgirlscode.com/, https://www.globaldiversitycfpday.com/, https://www.ladiesofcode.com/, Women Techmakers, http://www.women2.com, http://werocktech.com – even http://www.womeninlinux.com/ is not that much about free & open source software
  • Conferences: GHC https://ghc.anitab.org/, Tapia http://tapiaconference.org/, GHCI https://ghcindia.anitab.org/
  • Coding language groups not specific to open source: PyLadies, RailsGirls, Djangogirls, http://phpwomen.org/,
• Diversity:
  • Not only about getting newcomers involved in tech (OpenTechSchool, Codebar, FreeCodeCamp etc)
  • Not only women*, also people of color, people with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups

There are a lot of other lists already about general tech diversity initiatives:

• Tech initiatives for marginalized groups: https://gist.github.com/anikalindtner/9524950
• https://github.com/jamiehannaford/diversity
• https://github.com/cristianoliveira/awesome4girls
• https://github.com/folkswhocode/awesome-diversity
• https://github.com/piamancini/diversity-resources
  → That's why we should really focus on the intersection of open source and diversity & inclusion

What do you think @camilasan @jonatoni @sleepypioneer @emmairwin @Incabell @sara-02 everyone? :)

A very useful addition to the site would probably be a "Consulting" category where projects can find more resources or actually hire a consultant to work. Loosely defined the category would be:

• People who regularly write articles specific to diversity & inclusion in free & open source
• People who projects or companies can hire to improve in that area

Possible candidates to link there are:

• Otter Tech – Diversity and Inclusion Consulting by @sagesharp
• Frame Shift Consulting – More than just "checking the box" on diversity and inclusion in tech by @vaurora
• Programming Diversity – Beyond the Pipeline by @ashedryden
• Creating Inclusion and Diversity Resources by @thefoxis (seems inactive)

Does this category make sense, should it be named differently, and who is missing? What do you think @camilasan @jonatoni @emmairwin @sleepypioneer @evalica @Incabell everyone :)

• Women Techmakers Google
• Adobe Women in Research
• Toptal
• Nutanix
• GHC
• Western Digital
• Adobe Women In Tech India
• WeTech Qualcomm Scholar
• Goldman Sachs Scholarship
• Juniper Network Scholarships
• Acumen Scholarship
• Snap Scholarship
• Digital Product School
• Red Hat Open Source Contributor
  Also add links to pages .

Please go through my profile, @ucalyptus

Hi! We are organizing the second edition of sustainOSS in London on the 25th of October.

I'd like to make sure this community gets enough time to buy tickets and/or apply to travel fund to attend. Travel fund closes next week!

Also, if you are connected with networks of sustainers/ maintainers that are not normally voices in the open source sustainability conversations, could you please share them with me? We specially want to include them in sustain! (you can find me pia at opencollective dot com)

We are brining people in from Nigeria, South Africa, India, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Thanks <3

I Would like to join this organisation.
I love open source and will love to contribute in this organisation.
Please add me in your organisation.
My Github handle akshitagupta15june

Women Tech Makers can be added under either space or programs or both.
It is a global community with local chapters and runs the annual Google Women Tech makers Scholarship that is open worldwide(region based)
Women Tech Makers Community: https://www.womentechmakers.com
Women Tech Makers Scholarship: https://www.womentechmakers.com/scholars

I know that the list focusses on SOC programs for women and other underrepresented sections in software development but the number of girls selected for Google Summer of Code has been increasing over the years and I think more girls should know about such a program.

It seems your javascript dependencies are out of date.
This is of course not recommended ;)

@skjnldsv can maybe help as my js package manage skills are not sufficient.
After that you could setup automatic dependency management.

*contact people
*DSGVO

Hi folks: Finding an active open source contributor or maintainer woman is hard. Internships give a break in open source, if observed there is no retention of women in open source and research[1] suggests. Implementing open source day per month letting woman work with mentor and contribute in an open source project they would like would be practical implementation than just publishing research and articles. Lemme know if you would interested in supporting and I will share further things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_in_open-source_software

Should check through site for accessability, this ranges from correct alt="" in images but also some formatting. This can be checked with google chrome audits in the developer tools. (See image)

While the Contributor Covenant is listed on our page as first item, we don’t really explicitly mention that/if we adopted it.

We should mention it:

• In the footer of the website
• In the readme of the repository
• Via a CODEOFCONDUCT file (or so) in the repository

What does everyone think? @camilasan @sleepypioneer @Incabell @jonatoni @22nds @sara-02

To make the UI/UX better we can smooth scrolling effect on the navigation bar elements.

Actual result

Github, Twitter and IRC icons are not there in mobile UI.

Expected result

It should be in menu where Events, Articles etc are too.

I am an undergraduate at PICT, Pune. A quality and output-driven computer enthusiast. Passionate about exploring computer science and technology-related topics. My domains & fields of interest are machine learning, data science, Computer Vision, Python, Java, C++, R, MATLAB, open-source. I aspire to work and contribute to these fields for betterment society through research and innovations for improvisation in the field of computer science and technology.

I have a keen interest in the research, especially in the domains of machine learning, AI, and data science. I have been a research fellow at The Emerging Tech Foundation. I have been a python mentor at Skillship foundation, a mentor at facebook's developer's circle. I have a keen interest in writing technical blogs and articles, worked at Geeksforgeeks.org as a technical content writer. Also currently I am an editor at PICT IEEE NewsletterGroup, which is a technical biannual magazine of my college. Also, I write technical blogs on medium.

I am even passionate about web-development. I have developed the official website of CTD 2020 (a technical event of PISB), also completed a couple of internships in this domain with Wikasta Technical Solutions and another with Kode IT Solutions. I am Technical Lead Developer at GirlScript Foundation Pune, here I manage all the tech issues and development of its official website.

I am a semifinalist of the national python codathon conducted by cisco and ISTE. I have been accepted as a Udacity scholar for the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning scholarship program. I am also an enthusiastic open source contributor, I am a Github's Arctic Code Vault Contributor.

Keen about exploring opportunities in the field of research and development in computer science-related technologies, also open for collaborations!

On mobile view (<=575px) the main logo needs more margin at the top, because now the top header is covering it.

I would suggest we add:

margin: 60px 0 40px 0;

I have discussed with @jancborchardt about it.
We usually talk mostly about sexism and racism, but we should also try to highlight ageism.

A small photo with a short description and email. In case, anyone has questions they can message us.

The scroll-behavior CSS is not supported in SAFARI because of which smooth scroll animation is not working

REFER TO: css/custom.css -> [48,5]

Summary

Convert the existing website (plain HTML page) into a React-based site focused on content management, such as Docusaurus

Background

When the opensourcediversity.org website was first created, we were a smaller project with a group of people that also had in-person meet-ups to work on things like the website. Fast forward a few years and add a global pandemic in, and our site is tough to maintain in its current form.

Since there is a lot of interest in the site, and we have not made significant content changes in some time, now is a good opportunity to evaluate what we want to do. There are two goals in making a big change like this:

1. Exciting web technologies: Use a web framework or tool that has some popularity, in the hope of getting more people involved who want to learn more about that kind of technology.
2. Content management: Improve ease of maintenance for the resources, suggestions, and referrals we share on our website. Split up content so it is not maintained in one long HTML file.

Details

There are two sub-components to this mini-project:

Exciting web technologies

React is a popular front-end tool used in many communities, and Docusaurus is a React-based documentation tool written with close integration to upstream React. There are opportunities for us to figure out style and branding designs not only for this website, but any other websites we would want to build or host in the future.

Content management

Once the content is divided into smaller files that are easier to maintain, we can begin more active curation and review of what content is on our site. Are some resources outdated? Should we remove them? Are there new sections or new resources we can add? Where do they go?

We will need a small group of folks with an interest in this work to help out. Think of it like a librarian sort of task? 👀

Outcome

opensourcediversity.org is easier to contribute to, and it is easier for us to create and maintain a resource for and by the community

I think that https://github.com/numfocus/DISCOVER-Cookbook would be a good fit for the projects section of the home page

Hey folks: Highlighting, as more and more I get involved w/ open source, I find less and no woman as active contributor or maintainer of open source projects. Just spreading the word for organising OpenSourceDay where people will work with mentor for contributing in open source projects, meaning target open source projects based on folks interest and make them work w/ active contributors. Once encouraged and liked folks would stick. Much more practical solution than writing and reading and publishing diversity articles. Few organisations I observed and I didn't find any woman or active woman contributor -

• GNOME
• Spinx
• ReadTheDocs
• Numpy
• GENN
• Scipy
• Sympy
• InternetArchive
• PostMan
• TheBlueBrain
• OdlGroup
• GoogleChrome
• QubesOS
• Cassandra
• LLVM
• GNU
• Git
• GCC
• Gerrit

We are also publishing a research based website where most contributed, having most users open source org and open source projects can find the numbers publicly accessible.

Please see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_in_open-source_software.

Lemme know if you would be interested in supporting and running open source day every month. Let's retain women in open source!

Use Meetup API to add latest Meetup data on webpage in events section.

Currently, text alignment in class text-center is set to left. It should be set to center because it looks better visually and the class name says so.

It would be good for new members to have a list of tools for working with us.

• Use twitter to ask people if they know a project - use a nice hashtag for it?
• Store the list somewhere: in a page of the website?

cc @jancborchardt