Ignite: For Good' presentation 9: Learning to code through contributing to Open Source, Andrew...

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This is Andrew Nesbitt's presentation which he gave during the 'Ignite: For Good' evening mySociety hosted on 29th October 2014 as part of the Bath Digital Festival. Description: 24 Pull Requests is an Open Source community project I started in 2012 as a way to encourage developers to contribute to Open Source software that they've used. Since then over 5,500 people have contributed over 7,000 patches to thousands of different projects, often from people just starting to learn to code.

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Andrew Nesbitt

@teabass

What is a

Pull Request?

2012

843 people

3068 pull requests

1462 projects

2013

JSON API

Mobile Friendly Design

Organization Support

Localized into 16 languages

2013

1576 people

7167 pull requests

3103 projects

Why did it

take off?

Open Source

Community

Spirit

Gamification

Daily

Reminder

Emails

What’s next

for 2014?

Newbie Friendly

Hackathons

Mentoring

Help Wanted

Get involved!

24pullrequests.com

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