On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 15:23 +0530, Kashyap Murthy Salabhaktula wrote: > Hi, > I am quite new to open source contribution. It seem to me that > gnome would be a pretty nice organization to start off with, given the > fact that it has robust documentation and diverse areas which I could > explore. But I am having trouble to choose where to start it off. Any > help in this regard would be helpful. I am comfortable with C/C++ and > python.
This question comes up frequently on this mailing list and there have been many answers in the past. You get started by starting to do something. Anything. Writing an e-mail and asking is good but that is not the first step at all. I know that deep inside you behave tactical when you ask "how to do [I] get started?" (because I heard somewhere else that this funny open-source thingy is good for my career). You want to know whether investing any time, any effort at all, into open-source (which looks so stupid, right?) is worth it. That's why you *only* wrote an e-mail. Because asking that question, sending that e-mail, took you very little effort. Most probably none at all. Well, that's simply the wrong question, Kashyap. Do you really think there is a good simple answer to that? A cookie-cutter recipe? Perhaps a well-guarded secret? I give you an answer, but not to your question: Start to think for yourself. That's the first step. And yes it's totally worth it. ciao Michael PS: I am deeply sorry if this comes off as cynical. It's not. It's very very far away from being cynical. Please trust me on that. _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
