Bruna Moreira created the Big Open Source Sister (BOSS) mentoring program to welcome and guide underrepresented groups through contributing to open source communities. The program focuses on teaching the basics of open source through a 12-week online class, mentorship, and hands-on practices contributing to the LAPPIS rasa boilerplate project. Participants gain autonomy to contribute to other open source projects after completing the program.

1. Welcoming newcomers to FOSS
Big Open Source Sister

2. Who I am
Bruna Moreira
I miss going out to dance
and karaoke. But I have my
cats around, so it's fine.
Software engineer
PyLadies
BOSS Organizer
Learning brazilian sign language
#altText: Picture. White woman with short
curly hair, smiling with an orange shirt.

3. BOSS - Big Open Source Sister
Mentoring program for people from underrepresented groups. Focusing on
welcoming and guiding them through the basics of contributing to open
source communities.

4. BOSS - Big Open Source Sister
LAPPIS
rasa-boilerplate
Mentoring program for people from underrepresented groups. Focusing on
welcoming and guiding them through the basics of contributing to open
source communities.

5. The community

6. LAPPIS rasa boilerplate
LAPPIS rasa boilerplate repository
FOSS project that implements
features and integrations commonly
used by RASA Brasil Community
#altText: screenshot of the github repository of
rasa-ptbr-boilerplate

7. Boilerplate examples
Webchat Telegram Rocketchat RabbitMQ Kibana

8. The project

9. Learn about
communities and
technologies
Learn about rasa
boilerplate and create own
chatbot
Contribute to rasa
boilerplate
Autonomy to contribute to
other FOSS comunities
Project timeline #altText: icons representing tree growing
phases. First seed, second nurture, third growth
and lastly tree with fruits.

10. Learn about
communities and
technologies
Project timeline #altText: icons representing tree growing
phases. First seed, second nurture, third growth
and lastly tree with fruits.
Communities
Communication
Linux
Versioning
Remote work

11. Learn about rasa
boilerplate and create own
chatbot
Project timeline #altText: icons representing tree growing
phases. First seed, second nurture, third growth
and lastly tree with fruits.
Chatbots concepts
RASA architecture
RASA actions and python
RASA slots
Chatbot deployment

12. Contribute to rasa
boilerplate
Project timeline #altText: icons representing tree growing
phases. First seed, second nurture, third growth
and lastly tree with fruits.
Work on open issues
Open new issues
Communicate on issues
Fix bugs
Work on documentation

13. Autonomy to contribute to
other FOSS comunities
Project timeline #altText: icons representing tree growing
phases. First seed, second nurture, third growth
and lastly tree with fruits.
Find new communities
Hacktoberfest

14. Project
Online class Class video available Weekly mentorship Practice Pairing
#altText: icons representing the program structure. Blackboard for online class. A
video camera for the video classes available. Two people sitting in front of each other
and talking for the weekly mentorship. A computer for the practices. A two people
with arrows pointing to each other for the pairing.
Link to online classes videos
Link to presentations

15. First season

16. 12
weekly meetings
We had...

17. Repository growth

18. ● 12 Forks from
BOSS repository
Repository growth

19. ● Pull Requests
● Opened Issues
Repository growth

20. ● Commits during the project duration
Repository growth

21. Weekly commits

22. Talk like a boss

23. Interviews
#praTodosVerem: imagens de divulgação das
entrevistas. Trabalhando com software livre com Clarissa
Lima e Ludimila Belacruz. Participações em maratonas
de programação com Giovanna Kobus. Documentação,
escrita técnica e Outreachy com Anna e só. Carreira, Tech
Lead e mentoria com Camilla Maciel e Renata Soares.
Síndrome da impostora com Juliana Aguiar.
Cibersegurança com Priscila Joranhezon. Lei Geral de
Proteção de Dados com Camila Teixeira.
Link para a playlist com entrevistas

24. Community engagement challenge
#praTodosVerem: ícones de participação e premiação dos troféus da
GNOME engagement challenge. No topo está escrito “Community
engagement challenge”. Tem uma faixa na parte de baixo está escrito
em cada um, da esquerda para direita: COMPETITOR, PHASE ONE
WINNER, PHASE TWO WINNER.

25. https://github.com/orgs/BOSS-BigOpenSourceSister
bigopensourcesister@gmail.com
Thank you!
to those who believed, helped and
learnt in this journey.
#praTodosVerem: Ilustração. Cinco
pessoas marcadas por ícones de
localização conectadas por linhas
tracejadas enquanto o mundo gira atrás
delas.