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 > > -- > Digimer > Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ > "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of > Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent > have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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