Build community-driven software projects on GitHub

In this module, you will:

• Communicate with the project community in issues
• Manage notifications for project events
• Create branches to manage work in parallel
• Make commits to update project source
• Introduce changes with pull requests
• Deploy a web page to GitHub Pages

In this module, you will learn to:

• Contrast user versus organization owned projects
• Make recommendations about the number of GitHub organizations you should have
• Create discoverable repositories
• Create robust repository READMEs
• Use issue and pull request templates
• Build transparency into repositories
• Measure the success of InnerSource within your organization
• Distribute your InnerSource toolkit

In this module, you will:

• Assess your organization's existing open-source efforts
• Establish the goals of an open-source program
• Create a repository for your open-source program, complete with contributing and communication guidelines, codes of conduct, templates, and maintainer guides
• Abide by existing open-source licenses
• Choose a license for releasing an open-source project

In this module, you will:

• Identify where your code is stored
• Introduce code to a repository
• Create important Git files like a .gitignore
• Identify important next steps to manage your repository and add community involvement

In this module, you will:

• Prepare your project for a successful migration
• Handle any binary files currently stored in your project
• Create important Git files like a .gitignore
• Import your project to GitHub

In this module, you will:

• Identify the tools and GitHub features to establish a secure development strategy
• Enable vulnerable dependency detection for private repositories
• Detect and fix outdated dependencies with security vulnerabilities
• Automate the detection of vulnerable dependencies with Dependabot
• Add a security policy with a SECURITY.md file
• Remove a commit exposing sensitive data in a pull request
• Keep sensitive files out of your repository by applying the use of a .gitignore file
• Remove historical commits exposing sensitive data deep in your repository

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Find open-source projects and tasks to contribute to in GitHub.
• Create pull requests to open-source projects.
• Implement best practices to communicate with open-source maintainers and perform code reviews.
• Find and engage with open-source communities.