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 and maintainer of a real open-source project.
• Python coding with emphasis on Python packages, code quality and continuous integration.
• Collaborative teamwork using modern open-source workflows through Git and GitHub.

Outline

The outline for the sessions is below:

Week	Session	Date and Time	Location	Status
1	Finding the topic	April 28, 12.00–14.00	TBA	⚪ Upcoming
2	Introduction to Git	May 2, 08.00–12.00	WE5 01.003	⚪ Upcoming
3	Introduction to Python (I)	May 8, 12.00–16.00	WE5 01.004 WE5 01.003	⚪ Upcoming
3	Introduction to Python (II)	May 9, 08.00–12.00	WE5 01.003	⚪ Upcoming
5	Best practices	May 22, 12.00–14.00	WE5 01.004	⚪ Upcoming
6–11	Group work with hacking sessions	On demand	WE5 01.081	⚪ Upcoming
12	Code review session	TBA	TBA	⚪ Upcoming

Deliverables

Deliverable	Date
Create a GitHub account and contribute to issue discussions to form teams	End of week 1
Contribute code to a fork, create branches, and merge code	End of week 6
Submit your code through a pull request (code is evaluated in week 12)	End of week 11
Attend the code review session	Week 12
Implement the feedback provided in the pull request	End of week 13

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