Leveraging Final Degree Projects for Open Source Software Contributions

(1) Background: final year students of computer science engineering degrees must carry out a degree project (FDP) in order to graduate. Students’ contributions improve open source software (OSS) through FDPs can offer multiple benefits and challenges, both for the students, instructors itself. This work reports on practical experience developed by four contributing mature OSS projects during their FDPs, detailing how they addressed challenges involved, from teachers perspective. (2) Methods: we followed two established academic years analyzed GitHub responses survey. (3) Results: obtained set specific recommendations future practitioners detailed list achieved steering FDP towards contributions, projects. (4) Conclusions: find that oriented enhancing introduce into real-world, examples principles, give them boost confidence about technical communication skills help build portfolio daily used worldwide applications.