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.