[SUSOSP] Increasing the Reach of Open Source among High-Schoolers and Teenagers

Contributing to an open-source project offers novices the opportunity to join a community of practitioners, build a technical portfolio, gain experience with industry tools and technologies, and have a real-world impact. This project seeks to invite and support broader, more diverse participation in open source by supporting early contributors – especially those who have been historically minoritised within tech. The project will aim to accomplish the following tasks: Creating content that anyone with some Open Source experience can use to help and guide other completely new students to the journey of OpenSource, GitHub, and all the relevant technologies. This step would involve creating content in the form of transcripts, markdown guides, blogs, and some video content, which would serve as instruction manuals or workshop notes. Providing a medium and a platform for all contributors to share their various OpenSource experiences and testimonials. The same can be done in textual or multimedia formats like videos and photographs. Conducting an Open Source Themed Hackathon/Scavenger Hunt: We can organise a simple scavenger hunt for students on GitHub, where they can be provided simple tasks like creating issues and commits! GitHub workflows are an excellent tool for auto-evaluation of the same. Technical documentation will also be provided on how other users can create their own hunts. Social Media Engagement: Social media is where most youngsters are these days. Thus, we should be leveraging the power of the same to get young minds acquainted with the technical and open-source world at a young age so they can consciously choose to explore it further.