Thank you for sharing, that’s impressive! I’m sure it was a great experience for people taking part in the program. Thanks to everyone that contributed.
I’m crossing my fingers for some of the participants to keep their interest in Apache Airflow and more generally OSS now that the program has concluded. The first steps are the hardest; now it’s all fun :) On Sun 31 May 2026 at 18:23, Yeonguk Choo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I would like to share a brief update from the Open Source Contribution > Academy program that recently concluded. > > Together with mentors Noeun Kim and Minseong Cho, we organized the program > for 26 participants, most of whom had little or no prior open source > contribution experience. > > By the end of the program, all 26 participants had successfully contributed > to Apache Airflow, and contributions from every participant were merged. > > A graph showing the cumulative contribution activity throughout the program > is available here: > > https://discourse.airflow-kr.org/uploads/default/original/1X/8542343ff190c0e9a3a39c3bdb551325cf53447f.png > > The blue line represents pull requests submitted by participants, while the > orange line represents pull request reviews contributed by participants. > > Over the course of one month, participants submitted 97 pull requests and > contributed 66 reviews. > > While these numbers do not tell the whole story, it was encouraging to see > this level of growth from a group that started with little prior > contribution experience. > > Throughout the program, participants learned how to navigate the Airflow > contribution process, set up development environments using Breeze and > Prek, identify contribution opportunities, submit pull requests, > participate in code reviews, and follow changes through the merge and > release process. > > As a result, contributions made during the program were included in the > Airflow 3.2.2 release. > > More importantly, participants were able to experience firsthand how an > open source project operates and grows through contribution, review, and > collaboration. > > I would also like to thank the Airflow community for welcoming new > contributors and helping review and merge their contributions. > > 26 people started the program, and 26 people became Apache Airflow > contributors. > > Whether they continue contributing to Airflow or apply what they learned to > other open source projects, I hope this experience serves as the beginning > of a longer open source journey. > > Thank you to everyone who participated. > > Best regards, > Yeonguk > > On 2026/03/06 08:56:10 Yeonguk Choo wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > We are pleased to announce that we will be participating in the 2026 Open > > Source Contribution Academy(OSSCA) through the Apache Airflow project. > > > > OSSCA is an open source mentoring program organized by the National IT > > Industry Promotion Agency(NIPA) in Korea. Industry developers volunteer > as > > mentors to help beginners and early-career developers learn Git-based > > collaboration and gain their first experience contributing to open source > > projects. > > > > The Airflow Korea User Group is participating in OSSCA to help foster > open > > source contribution culture in Korea. This mentoring program will be led > by > > Minseong Cho, Noeun Kim, and myself. > > > > The program runs for approximately six weeks, during which participants > > will learn Git collaboration workflows and practice contributing to open > > source projects. > > > > This year’s OSSCA includes the following 15 projects: > > * Apache Airflow > > * Cilium > > * eGovFrame VSCode Initializr > > * GraphRAG > > * GStreamer > > * Guider (performance analysis application development) > > * JavaScript open source contributions > > * LitmusChaos > > * LLM Journey with OLLAMA > > * OpenStack > > * Project Discovery > > * PyTorch documentation localization > > * RLTK open source library > > * valkey > > * Yocto Project > > > > *Please note that this program is primarily intended for participants in > > Korea, and mentoring sessions will mainly be conducted in Korean.* > > > > If you know someone who may be interested in starting their open source > > contribution journey, please feel free to share the application link > below: > > > > https://www.oss.kr/pages/10/4459 > > <https://open-up-kr.typeform.com/2026-mentee> > > > > Application deadline: *April 1* > > Best, > > Yeonguk > > -- > > 추영욱 Yeonguk Choo > > > > Mobile +82-10-8815-8118 > > Email [email protected] <[email protected]> > > FB23 00B5 EAA3 EBF0 FDD6 C2B9 BE7A 512C BC72 067A > > >
