User:Umegbewe Nwebedu/sandbox

1.What is the working name of your project?

Ans: Open Source Developer Groups (OSDG)

2. Tell us in 200 words or less about your idea?

Ans: OSDG is a learning community predominantly targeted towards breeding beginner coders, developers and open source enthusiasts in the open source way to accelerate the adoption, contribution and development of Open Source Software's through hosting varieties of technical workshops, meetups, webinars, hackathons, study jams, tech talks and events in different chapters (OSDGs) all around the world leaded by experts in open source technology.

Aiming to reach out to more newbies, thoroughly explaining to them the benefits and how to contribute to open source. Encouraging collaboration and keeping the FOSS ecosystem stable and build more communities of open source developers with open source.

3. How does your entry introduce the FOSS community to beginning coders?


 * What is open source and where does it exists?
 * What is its use?
 * Who is it for?
 * How do i contribute to open source?
 * What is in open source for me?

The questions above has for long been the questions beginner coders interested in open source asks. To introduce beginner coders to the FOSS community? this questions has to be answered.

The OSDG would analyze this questions thoroughly and answer them expansively through tailored made resources (for beginners) which could be in videos, articles, books, study jams etc. Noting which open source projects and FOSS communities interests this open sourcerers most and would be paired with a mentor (could be of the project or the organization) who will tutor them extensively on how to contribute to their choice organization or project.

While also contributing in any capacity they can, this individuals would also be improving their coding skills through learning new or enhancing on programming languages/frameworks to increase their chances of contributing to various open source projects.

The OSDG would connect, mentor this Open Sourcerers showing them(not telling them) the benefits of contributing to open source.

4. As part of the challenge we seek ideas that engage diverse populations that are often under repesented in the coding community. Will your submission engage member of this audience?. If so ,please explain?

Yes it would.