Joining the Project

After looking into our original three choices for our FOSS project to work on, we thought we would work on Yoda-Pa. However, we found that there was a very small number of issues to working, meaning our overall body of work for the rest of the semester could potentially be small. We looked at other projects and decided on Jupyter Notebook. Jupyter notebook is an open source notebook project with a thriving community and hundreds of well documented issues to work on. Some issues are even tagged specifically for newcomers to work on to get a feel for the project.

Joining the community was easy. I joined the community mailing list with my google account to receive updates on the project as a whole. I also joined the Jupyter gitter for chatting with others working on the project. There is also a stack overflow page for solving issues related to Jupyter. Overall, it appears the community is thriving and welcoming to newcomers.