https://github.com/ucl-arc/good-first-issue-hackathons
Material and issues for organising "Good first issue" hackathons and workshops.
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Material and issues for organising "Good first issue" hackathons and workshops.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ucl-arc/good-first-issue-hackathons
- Owner: UCL-ARC
- License: cc-by-4.0
- Created: 2025-06-11T08:16:02.000Z (4 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-07-31T09:56:41.000Z (2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-08-29T17:10:46.516Z (about 1 month ago)
- Topics: event-organisation, good-first-issue, hackathon, open-source, opensource, organisation, workshop, workshop-materials
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.md
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README
# Good First Issue Hackathons and Workshops
[UCL-ARC] organises "Good first issue" hackathons and workshops to help UCL staff and students, who are curious about open source software, to make their first contribution!
[UCL-ARC]: https://ucl.ac.uk/arc
This repository contains material we've used before and some lessons learned from previous workshops.
Admin tasks for organising future workshops and hackathons can be organised by [issues] raised against this repository.
All material, [issues], and [project boards] are public.
[issues]: https://github.com/UCL-ARC/good-first-issue-hackathons/issues
[project boards]: https://github.com/UCL-ARC/good-first-issue-hackathons/projects
## Events
| Date | Advertised name | Location/Event | Links |
| ---------- | --------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 2025-11-26 | Open source good-first issue hackathon | [CCMI CDT](https://ccmi-cdt.org/), 90 High Holborn, Function Space (TBC) | |
| 2025-07-15 | First contribution to open-source software workshop | [The ARC Festival of Digital Research and Scholarship](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/events/2025/jul/festival-digital-research-innovation-scholarship) | [Project board](https://github.com/orgs/UCL-ARC/projects/151) [Welcome slides](http://scnlf.me/2025-07-15-Good-First-Issue-Welcome/) |
| 2024-12-03 | ARC Winter OSS Good-first-issue-athon | 90 High Holborn, Function Space | |
| 2024-05-28 | ARC Open Source Contribution Party | 90 High Holborn, Case room 2 and virtual on Teams | |
## Other resources
- [PyOpenSci's "your first contribution"](https://www.pyopensci.org/lessons/contribute-open-source/your-first-contribution.html)
- [GitHub's opensource.guide "how to contribute"](https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/)
## Reuse
Want to run a workshop like this and use some of our material? Please go ahead!
The material in this repository is licensed under [CC-by 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Logos are trademarks and have different reuse guidelines:
- [The UCL logo](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brand/brand-essentials/ucl-logo).
- The Open Source Initiative "Keyhole logo" [usage guidelines](https://opensource.org/logo-usage-guidelines) and [trademark guidelines](https://opensource.org/about/trademark-guidelines).
But we assume you will rebrand for your own organisation and purposes.