From 1891b7d2e06a9af39d6e77c1869b4ef8d2a38953 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Pearce <jan_pearce@berea.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:20:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add Berea College Student Software Developers to friendly
 projects

---
 source/sec_contributing_projects.ptx | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/source/sec_contributing_projects.ptx b/source/sec_contributing_projects.ptx
index e36184dd..a4582d77 100644
--- a/source/sec_contributing_projects.ptx
+++ b/source/sec_contributing_projects.ptx
@@ -5,6 +5,32 @@
 <p>
     The following are open source communities with a reputation of being friendly to novice contribution. Be sure to follow the recommendations given in <xref ref="sec_contributing_quickstart"/> for getting started well.
 </p>
+
+   <subsubsection>
+    <title><em>
+Berea College Student Software Development Team</em></title>
+        <p>
+            The Berea College Student Software Development Team is a program that originally was designed to help the Berea College community identify inefficiencies in their processes and then develop technical solutions to address those problems. Over the years, it has grown into a team that creates and maintains open-source applications for internal clients using modern engineering practices and which welcomes external contributions.
+
+        </p>
+        <p>
+        To get started contributing to BCStudentSoftwareDevTeam, check out their overview page at <url href="https://github.com/BCStudentSoftwareDevTeam" visual="github.com/BCStudentSoftwareDevTeam">BCStudentSoftwareDevTeam</url>. The maintainers recommend that you start by:
+        
+        <ol>
+        <li>
+            <p>
+            Reading the documentation for each of their projects.
+            </p>
+        </li>
+               <li>
+            <p>
+            Looking for issues marked with the "good first issues" tag since the project maintainers have identified these issues as being good for new contributors.
+            </p>
+        </li>
+        </ol>
+
+    </p>
+</subsubsection>
     <subsubsection>
     <title><em>CHAOSS</em></title>
         <p>