• Assignment: - Join Team Channels
• Assignment: - Reading
  • Self-Assessment
• Assignment: - Activity
• Assignment: - Optional

Assignment: - Join Team Channels

If you haven’t already join the Devtools Slack channel, and #community-leadership .

Assignment: - Reading

• Read How to Get an Open Source Job in 2018 - Forbes
• Check out this Open Source Maintainer Job Description
• Read What Open Source Can do for You - Open Hatch
• Red Github’s Starting an Open Source Project.
• Read Github’s Best Practices for Maintainers.
• Read The Art of Closing, by Jess Frazelle.
• Read Kindly Killing Pull Requests.
• 20 useful tools for open-source maintainers

Self-Assessment

1. I have early ideas, and inspiration for how my career goals, connect with leadership in open source.
2. I can articulate the importance of documentation, and open communication.
3. I can name the 3 files needed as basic documentation in a new Open Source project.
4. I understand the importance of saying ‘no’, for both the project and my well being.
5. I can describe 3 strategies for closing a task or PR (based on Jess’s blog post).
6. I understand that leaders in open source, distribute work and ask for help :)
7. I can list 3 bots, and how they can assist an open source project.
8. I can list 3 reasons why a pull request might not be accepted.
9. I understand that no project benefits from my leadership, if I am burnt out, over committed. That self-care is a priority.

Assignment: - Activity

• Please complete questions, and ‘First Steps’ exercise in the Open Source Career Map.

Assignment: - Optional

• Look for inspiration (and follow) other women leaders in open source (and propose other names) source.

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