In this workshop, we'll help you set up your own Forem using Git, Python 3.x, Ansible, Butane, Fedora CoreOS, a supported cloud provider (DigitalOcean, AWS, or Google Cloud), and your creativity. You'll walk away with a brand new community (deployed to production) focused on whatever topic fascinates you!

Note: Part II of this workshop (“Configuring Community: Making Forem Your Own”) takes place on September 24 and is led by Ella Ang de Jonge and Michael Tharrington.

In this workshop, you have one mission: to get more comfortable making open source contributions. We’ll use Forem as our example project and get you familiar with the basics of making contributions to open source projects while respecting open source etiquette and project maintainers.

You’ve just installed your Forem and are ready to set it up. What’s next? Don’t worry, we got you covered. In this workshop, we’ll walk you through configuring your Forem and offer guidance on what you may want to do after first setting it up.

Note: This is a follow up to “Configuring Community: Self-Hosting Your Forem [pt. I]”

In this workshop, we'll take a look at the basic principles of web accessibility and how to keep them front and center while developing software. We'll use the Forem codebase as a touchpoint along the way as a case study and example.