Latest Lessons

📁 Building Community ▼

Building Community

Topic: Community

Building a healthy community helps your project thrive. Learn how to foster collaboration and inclusivity.

Audience: Developers, Leaders | OSPO Relevance: Core

Leadership and Governance

Topic: Community

Effective leadership and governance ensure long-term success for your open source project.

Audience: Leaders, Maintainers | OSPO Relevance: Core

TESTING again

Topic: Packaging

TEST again

Audience: Communities | OSPO Relevance: Moderate

📁 Contributing to a Project ▼

Social Coding and Open Source Collaboration

Topic: Community, Git/Beg. VCS

This lesson explores social coding and open-source collaboration using platforms like GitHub. It covers contributing to projects, community engagement, and using social coding tools for collaborative development.

Audience: Researchers, Open Source Contributors, Software Developers | OSPO Relevance: Core

Writing Documentation for Software Projects

Topic: Maintaining, Contributing

This lesson teaches how to write effective software documentation, including API documentation, user guides, and installation instructions.

Audience: Developers, PhD Students, Technical Writers | OSPO Relevance: Moderate

Making Good Pull Requests

Topic: Git/Beg. VCS, Contributing

This lesson covers how to create high-quality pull requests for open source projects and collaborative software development teams.

Audience: Developers, PhD Students, Open Source Contributors | OSPO Relevance: High

Issue Tracking with GitHub

Topic: Git/Beg. VCS

This lesson covers the basics of issue tracking for software projects, including how to create, manage, and close issues on GitHub.

Audience: Developers, Project Managers, PhD Students | OSPO Relevance: Moderate

Collaborative Git for Teams

Topic: Git/Beg. VCS, Contributing

This lesson explains how to use Git for collaborative software development, focusing on advanced Git techniques such as branching, merging, and conflict resolution.

Audience: Researchers, Software Developers, PhD Students | OSPO Relevance: Moderate

📁 Maintaining and Sustaining Software ▼

Python Packaging

Topic: Packaging, Python

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Audience: N/A | OSPO Relevance: Moderate

Python Packaging for Beginners

Topic: Packaging, Python

This lesson teaches the essential steps for packaging Python projects and publishing them on PyPI.

Audience: Software Developers, PhD Students | OSPO Relevance: Moderate

R Packaging

Topic: Packaging, R

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Audience: N/A | OSPO Relevance: Moderate

Continuous Integration and Delivery with GitHub Actions

Topic: DevOps

This lesson covers how to set up continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for automated testing and deployment in software projects.

Audience: Software Developers, PhD Students, DevOps Engineers | OSPO Relevance: High

CI/CD for Research Software with GitLab CI

Topic: DevOps

This lesson covers the implementation of CI/CD pipelines in research software projects, focusing on automating tests, builds, and deployments using GitLab CI.

Audience: Researchers, Software Developers, HPC Engineers | OSPO Relevance: Moderate

📁 Understanding Licensing & Compliance ▼