OSSN/OpenSourceExperiments

Intro

As part of the Open Source Student Network pilot program we are designing a set of experiments on better understanding the user journey of University students towards their first open source project.

The goal of these experiments is to identify a set of best practices which are facilitating/driving/supporting University students to make their first code contribution to an Open Source project.

We will closely work with the Clubs of our OSSN network for recruiting students who would be interested being part of the experiments.

Approach

The only requirement for the students is to dedicate one hour per week for taking part into our online sessions/calls. No prior experience is a certain programming language or a technology stack is needed and we invite all students regardless their skills or experiences to sign up.

All the students will participate in small experiments throughout their journey towards their first code contribution.

User Journey	What students will do
Discovery	The process where students will identify a project to work on
Engagement	There process where students will engage with a project by reading its codebase, going through the docs, issues etc
Onboarding	The process of setting up the development environment
Contributing	Identifying an issue/feature/bug, writing code and pushing it to the projects codebase
Retention	Identifying what to do next after the first pull request

Timeline and call to action

The experiments are going to begin in the first week of February and each experiments will last four weeks.

If you are interested being part of the experiments and you can dedicate just one hour per week for 4 weeks, please fill this form.