The Open-Source Project

Welcome! The Open-Source Project is organized by the digital work lab (Prof. Dr. Gerit Wagner) at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. You can find all information about this project in our syllabus.

Participate

If you would like to participate, please attend the introductory session. Details regarding registration and topic assignment will be announced during this session. We look forward to meeting you!

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Goals

• Hands-on experience as a contributor to a real open-source project.
• Collaborative teamwork using modern open-source workflows through Git and GitHub.
• Python coding with emphasis on code quality and continuous integration tools.
• Contribute to real Python package and complete a code review process.

Outline

The outline for sessions is below:

Week	Session	Date and Time	Location
1	Finding the topic	October 16, 14.00-16.00	WE5 1.003
2	Introduction to Git	October 23, 14.00-18.00	WE5 1.003
3	Introduction to Python	October 28, 8.00-12.00 October 30, 14.00-18.00	WE5 1.003 WE5 1.003
5	Best practices	November 13, 14.00-16.00	WE5 1.003
6-11	Group work with hacking sessions	On demand	WE5 1.081 or online
12	Code review session	TBA (CW 3)	ISM Labor 1.094

Deliverables

Deliverable	Date
Create a GitHub account and contribute to issue discussions to form teams	October 22
Contribute code to a fork, create branches and synchronize with upstream	November 10
Create the pull request (code is evaluated on January 12)	December 20
Implement the feedback provided in the pull request	January 24

Instructor

My name is Gerit Wagner, and I am your instructor. I enjoy coding, solving programming puzzles, and building tools that are useful for others. In this project, I invite you to contribute to one of my most significant packages: CoLRev.

Gerit Wagner
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg