CarpentryCon 2022: What's all the GitHubub about? Contributing to Lessons Directly on GitHub (EN)
Channel: The Carpentries
Date: 2022-08-19

Etherpad: https://pad.carpentries.org/cc2022-whats-all-the-githubub

SESSION LEADS
Sarah Stevens, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Zhian Kamvar, The Carpentries

ABSTRACT
Carpentries Lessons are built and maintained by our community openly on GitHub, which allows us to live true to our value of community collaboration and acting openly. However, new instructors are encouraged to make a contribution to our lessons via Git or GitHub, which can be a challenge to people unfamiliar with the platform. This session will provide a gentle introduction to contributing to lessons directly via GitHub. No command line knowledge is needed to enjoy this session. By the end of the session, participants should feel empowered and able to edit a specific lesson page on GitHub, make a pull request, and iterate on feedback from the maintainer of the lessons. It is our hope that this will embolden new contributions that will increase the quality of our lessons in the years to come.