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welOSS - Welcome to FOSS

About this Project

This project is part of the 2020 GNOME Community Engagement Challenge and meant for use by the welOSS (Welcome to FOSS) team, Challenge organizers, and Challenge judges.

The 2020 GNOME Community Engagement Challenge is a three-part challenge created in partnership with Endless. The Challenge encourages individuals or teams to create stimulating ideas that will connect the next generation of coders to the FOSS community and keep them involved for years to come. Learn more about the Challenge.

welOSS (Welcome to FOSS)

The welOSS platform analyzes every OSS project available on the major version control systems and grabs metrics such as stars, contributors, language, releases, TODOs, and many more, which can help newcomers in choosing the right project according to their preferences. Based on metrics and user preferences, it’ll also link the resources ranging from code tutorials to communication guides enabling them to get started. Features like contact contributors will help them to get in-person help in navigating through the project issues and goals. This way, any newcomer can see himself onboard the FOSS community. As a measure to keep users engrossed and contributing, we’ll have a reward system similar to the reputation metric of Stack Overflow, based on the contributions made to an OSS project.

How to Use this Project

Members of the welOSS (Welcome to FOSS) team should use this GitLab project to enter their Phase 2 submissions. For this phase, we ask you to submit a proof of concept for your project. Your proof of concept can be a working prototype, project examples, and/or documentation demonstrating your concept.

  • All code-based projects should store their code and assets in the repository of this project.
  • All non-code projects should upload all relevant materials as PDF or jpeg files to the project repository.

All Phase 2 submissions must be added to this folder by Nov 2, 2020, at or before 23:59 UTC.

Please contact cechallenge@gnome.org prior to the deadline if you have any questions or issues.