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- online self-paced guide: https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/articles/readme/
- 14 week in-person training with mentorship https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/opportunity/mozilla-open-leaders/
- Open Science MOOC - currently under development, but already includes an Open Source and Open Research Software module.
- Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) - a community and a conference that wants to make scientific hardware open source by 2025.
- JOSS, the Journal of Open Source Software - if you’re making good quality research software, you deserve credit for it! You can publish relatively short papers for your open source research software, and/or review software, too.
- The Carpentries, especially the Git Lesson
- The Code is Science Manifesto
- 4OSS - 4 Simple recommendations for Open Source Software - an open source guide aimed at researchers.
- http://www.firsttimersonly.com/ try your own first contributions, then recruit others for your projects!
- Hacktoberfest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/ (Octobertime!) - get stickers and a t-shirt if you complete 4 pull requests for an open source project.
- Google Summer of Code - many scientific / research projects participate.
- Student? Learn how to work open source by contributing to an Open Source project for three months over the summer (students only): https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ (Applications in March-April)
- Do you lead an open project? Apply to participate as a mentor organisation, or join an umbrella organisation. (Applications in January)
- GitHub docs: Merging an upstream repository into your fork
- StackOverflow: How to synchronize fork with original GitHub project?
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