Hi all. On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Kushal Das <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > We will soon open up the call for summer training 2016. We want to > publish a series of testimonials of our previous years' participants from > the training. If you want to participate in that, please reply me off > list (as a reply to this mail) with text, and one recent photo for the > blog posts :) > > Things you may want to write in the post: > > * Your name (blog/twitter) and what do you do > Palash Chatterjee 4th year Computer Science student at Techno India, Salt Lake Github : https://github.com/pecey * How did you learn about the training? > I stumbled across dgplug when I was searching for summer trainings, a couple of years back. > * How this training changed (if at all) your life? > I am not a familiar face, since I didn't take part in the training actively. I used the logs available on the site. As far as changing my life is concerned, it surely did. I started coding in Python and started loving it. > * Have you contributed to any upstream project(s)? If yes, then details. > As far as open source contribution is concerned, I am a newbie. I started contributing just a couple of days back. I am currently contributing to DDG, trying to fix small bugs. I hope to soon contribute to projects like Fedora. > * Any tips for the next batch of participants. > One mistake which I made when I started my college life was that I got intimidated very easily. I thought of contributing to the open source when I was in my 2nd year, but got intimidated. I had this fear that I am not good enough to contribute. But once you start contributing, you realise that the open source community is much more welcoming than it seems. I have been using Github for the last 2 years approx. And I learnt more about git in the past month, once I started contributing, than I learnt in my previous years. I realised it pretty late. Hope you realise it sooner. > Feel free to add anything else you want to talk about > Kushal > -- > Fedora Cloud Engineer > CPython Core Developer > http://kushaldas.in > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org > -- Palash Chatterjee _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org
