Ideas and help for landing in GSOC.

[Faris Hasan]

Hello , 

I am a sophomore ( 2nd year ) year student . I am trying my best that i can to land in GSOC in 2020. I have cleared all my java basics and have literally just started with ds.

I know that it isn't enough , but thats why i want help . How to do it the right way ? Can i still contribute to the open source community if I only know the basics.

Would you list some of the projects , that would be of big help.

Thanks a lot ! 

[Piyush Aggarwal]

Pick a language you LOVE to code in. Find organizations that use that language mostly.

Check out their projects, see if something interests you. If you're unable to make a decision, find out where the community hangs out- try to find their IRC channel and chat with the people there. Once you find an interesting project, join the IRC channel and/or any other bridged chat group (like KDE Connect's IRC is bridged to Telegram group in my case). 

Ask the team you want to start contribution, how can I start, any pointers, how to build the project and test it out, any junior jobs, junior tasks or good-first-issue. Start small, gain experience as you go.

GCi (Google Code-In) is coming up. Try to fix those tasks if you find nothing.

Thanks a lot ! 

:) 

Skills are not the tough part, persistence is.

mail me personally if you wish to talk further. I'm on Telegram, you can message me at @brute4s99

Best
Piyush Aggarwal | brute4s99
https://piyush.tech/
   

[Joel Sherrill]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 4:57 PM Piyush Aggarwal <piyushag...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, 3:16 AM Faris Hasan <farish...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello , 

I am a sophomore ( 2nd year ) year student . I am trying my best that i can to land in GSOC in 2020. I have cleared all my java basics and have literally just started with ds.

I know that it isn't enough , but thats why i want help . How to do it the right way ? Can i still contribute to the open source community if I only know the basics.

Would you list some of the projects , that would be of big help.

Pick a language you LOVE to code in. Find organizations that use that language mostly.

Check out their projects, see if something interests you. If you're unable to make a decision, find out where the community hangs out- try to find their IRC channel and chat with the people there. Once you find an interesting project, join the IRC channel and/or any other bridged chat group (like KDE Connect's IRC is bridged to Telegram group in my case). 

Ask the team you want to start contribution, how can I start, any pointers, how to build the project and test it out, any junior jobs, junior tasks or good-first-issue. Start small, gain experience as you go.

GCi (Google Code-In) is coming up. Try to fix those tasks if you find nothing.

That's short and great advice!

If you approach the project(s) now, there will be plenty of time for you to become familiar to the developers and with the project.

--joel

RTEMS 

Thanks a lot ! 

:) 

Skills are not the tough part, persistence is.

mail me personally if you wish to talk further. I'm on Telegram, you can message me at @brute4s99

Best
Piyush Aggarwal | brute4s99
https://piyush.tech/
   

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