This is a presentation about Open Source projects that has an impact on humanity and social justice. In this presentation we talk about: What is Open Source, Why you should contribute, and how you can do that. Also, we introduce some Open Source projects that are being used around the world with humanitarian and social impacts, and how you can get involved in those projects. Feel free to contact me on Venus.Izadi@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns. Regards, Venus

1. pen Source
W H A T . W H Y . C O N T R I B U T E

2. Overview
What is Open Source?
Why you should contribute?
What it means to contribute?
How to find a project?
Introducing projects with Humanity
and social impact
Let's do it
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3. Guess!

4. Why?
Why would you give up your free time to work on
something you’re not getting paid for?

5. What it means to
contribute?
You don’t have to contribute code
- Planning events
- Define clear usability cases
- Work with documentation
- Report bugs
- Improve look & feel

6. How to find projects?
GitHub Explore (https://github.com/explore/)
First Timers Only (http://www.firsttimersonly.com/)
Your First PR (https://yourfirstpr.github.io/)
CodeTriage (https://www.codetriage.com/)
24 Pull Requests (https://24pullrequests.com/)
Up For Grabs (http://up-for-grabs.net/#/)
Contributor-ninja A (https://contributor.ninja/)
CHECKLIST

7. Open Source attitude

8. Unicef Projects
Leading open source
enterprise electronic
medical record system
platform.
OpenMRS
Mobile phone
application and data
storage system, sort and
share information about
unaccompanied and
separated children in
emergency
RapidFTR

9. Other Projects
Hospital system for
low resource settings.
It combines and
enhances existing
open source products
into a single solution.
Bhamni
Open technology
platform for financial
inclusion, provides the
core financial services
to the 2 billion poor
and unbanked.
MifosX

10. Workshop

11. Steps
Communicate effectively
Gathering context
Opening a pull request

12. Resources
https://opensource.org/osd.html
https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-
for-beginners
http://www.osia.net.au/drupal7/

13. What's Next?
PERSIST AND DON'T GIVE UP

14. MANY THANKS
O p e n s o u r c e i s m a d e b y p e o p l e l i k e y o u :
O n e i s s u e , P u l l r e q u e s t , C o m m e n t , o r
h i g h - f i v e a t a t i m e .