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 <lists@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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