Agreed and well said.

I simply meant that if a hackfest is conducted regarding how to begin contributing to open source, we can add or give an overview about GSOC/OPW as popular programs for working full time on big open source projects. GSoC/OPW will not be a part of central/main focus of hackfest. The main idea and theme of hackfest would still remain Contribution to Open Source for extreme beginners and how to get started[1] with it easily.

[1] http://blog.hackerearth.com/2014/03/how-to-get-started-with-open-source.html

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:49 PM, sankarshan <foss.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Giriraj Sharma
<giriraj.sharma27@gmail.com> wrote:
> It will also be good if you mention about popular open source contribution
> programs like GSoC and OPW.

GSoC, OPW and similar programs do expect a reasonable familiarity with
the project as well as appreciation of how large projects work (eg.
communication methods, bug tracker, documentation etc). Particularly,
<http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page#13._Should_students_contact_the>
is relevant.

10. Should students contact the mentoring organization before the
program begins?

If you're interested in contributing to a particular open source
project, there's no need to wait forGoogle Summer of Code to start;
start talking in the project's IRC channel, subscribe to the
development mailing lists, take a look through the bug tracker and
submit a patch. If you see something that you think would make a
particularly good project for Google Summer of Code, why not suggest
it to the organization?

--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>

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