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Learn Contributing & Maintaining
in 5 Days

Make your first pull request. Get it merged. Eventually maintain a project others contribute to.

5 lessons
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~60 min/day
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What you'll learn

Open Source in 5 Days

Free 5-day open source course. Finding issues, making pull requests, understanding licenses, maintaining a repo, and building community.

  • Find good first issues in projects you use every day
  • Fork, branch, and submit a pull request that gets merged
  • Understand OSS licenses: MIT, Apache, GPL — and when each matters
  • Write commit messages and PR descriptions that maintainers love
  • Set up your own open source project with the right files
  • Build and moderate a welcoming contributor community
GitHub
workflow
MIT
license
5
lessons
$0
cost
5-Day Curriculum

Every lesson has a real exercise.
No theory without practice.

01
Open Source Foundations
OSS ecosystem, finding projects, reading codebases, good-first-issues
good-first-issuecodebaseecosystem
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02
Making Your First PR
Fork, clone, branch, commit, push, PR — the full workflow
forkPRcommit message
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03
Licensing & Legal Basics
MIT, Apache 2.0, GPL explained, CLA, license compatibility
MITGPLCLA
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04
Maintaining a Project
CONTRIBUTING.md, issue templates, PR reviews, release process
CONTRIBUTINGtemplatesreleases
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05
Community Building
Code of conduct, Discord/Slack, recognition, burnout prevention
CoCcommunitysustainability
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Your instructor
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Bo Peng
Founder, Precision AI Academy

Kaggle Top 200 data scientist. Trained 400+ professionals across universities and federal agencies. Built production systems at scale. This course is practical first — every lesson has code you can run and an exercise you can finish in under an hour.

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