Abstract¶
Teaching and mentorship offer two complementary pathways into open source for new contributors, helping both to sustain projects over time and to broaden who is participating in them. This talk will offer a broad overview of faculty efforts to teach open source in the classroom, plus mentorship programs housed within and beyond universities. We’ll share specific examples of what an open source course or mentorship program can look like, and the impact on students who participate in them. We’ll also provide pointers to relevant communities and resources for those wishing to try these approaches themselves.
Emily Lovell | UCSC¶
Dr. Emily Lovell is the Associate Director of the UC Santa Cruz Open Source Program Office and holds a faculty appointment in the Computer Science and Engineering department. Her research and teaching use novel domains to invite broader participation in computing, with her postdoctoral work focusing on newcomers to open source. Emily previously served on faculty at Berea College, where she developed and taught courses on open source contribution and computational craft. She designed the LilyTiny, an open-source sewable microcontroller that has been commercially available as part of the LilyPad Arduino product line for over a decade. She holds a S.M. in Media Arts & Sciences from the MIT Media Lab and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz.