Hi Digimer
Thanks for your valuable advice and guidance. :D
I am good at C programming, HTML and know the basics of MySQL. I am hoping
to learn more through the open source. Basically I am not well aware of the
areas where I can get started. I am ready to contribute in even the
smallest of the things because I know it will benefit me in some or the
other kind. Please guide me further....! :)

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 11:18 PM, Digimer <li...@alteeve.ca> wrote:

> On 21/01/17 12:20 PM, Sarthak Gupta wrote:
> > Hi
> > I am new here and I want to contribute to open source. Can someone
> > please guide me. :)
>
> This is a surprisingly big question, despite being short. :)
>
> "Open source" covers an absolutely huge range of projects and interests.
> I would suggest you start by asking yourself, "what do I find
> interesting?". If you're just starting out, don't worry if you think of
> something and then decide you don't actually like it. That's part of
> learning, just switch to some other field and see if you like that. You
> might bounce around a while before you find what it is you really like.
>
> When you do pick a field that you think will interest you, look at the
> software people are using in it. Say you like web servers; There is the
> established Apache server, lightweight servers, servers designed to huge
> scale, etc. If you think you will like databases; There are postgresql,
> mariadb, nosql, etc. If you think you will like graphics or gaming,
> there are several projects there, too.
>
> Once you find a field, and then a project to help with, join that
> projects community (exactly how depends on the project). Introduce
> yourself and offer to help. You might start off doing simple things,
> like helping with translations if you speak two languages, editing
> documentation, looking so simple open bugs and contribute patches and
> stuff like that.
>
> As you start to contribute, even if just in small and simple ways at
> first, people in the project will certainly be happy and they will help
> you learn in return. You'll move on the more difficult bugs, writing
> extensions, or whatever the project needs and you think would be fun.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Digimer
>
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