Course Resources

Additional materials and references for the Open Source Development course

Open Source Development: Course Resources

This page contains additional resources, references, and tools to support your learning journey in open source development.

Essential Reading

Books

Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal
Open Source for the Enterprise by Dan Woods and Gautam Guliani

Articles and Papers

Online Courses and Tutorials

Tools and Platforms

Version Control

Development Environments

Visual Studio Code
Atom
JetBrains IDEs
GitPod - Cloud development environment

Collaboration Tools

GitHub Discussions
Discord - Community chat
Slack - Team communication
Gitter - Developer chat

Documentation

Continuous Integration

Community Resources

Organizations

Events and Conferences

Programs

Projects for Beginners

Looking for projects to contribute to? Here are some repositories that are welcoming to new contributors:

Legal Resources

Choose a License
TLDRLegal - Simplified explanations of licenses
Open Source License Compatibility
Contributor License Agreements

Course-Specific Materials

Templates

Project README template
Contribution guidelines template
Code of conduct template
Issue and pull request templates

Code Samples

Example Git workflows
Sample CI/CD configurations
Test suite examples
Documentation examples

Cheat Sheets

Git commands cheat sheet
GitHub workflow cheat sheet
Open source license comparison chart
Documentation best practices

This resource list will be updated throughout the course. If you have suggestions for additional resources, please share them in the course forum.