The Open Source Mentorship Program is a partnership between Code for America brigades and Girl Develop It chapters. The "Summer of Open Source" was piloted in Philadelphia over the summer of 2014. Met with great excitement from the success of the experiment, CfA and GDI cemented the partnership so that other brigades and chapters across the country might replicate and extend the impact of this collaboration.
In the summer of 2015, Philadelphia once again launched osmp. This guidebook is the result of their experience and includes both successes and opportunities for improvement. It is as comprehensive as possible, but the intention is for subsequent programs to fork and bu