What is there for you if you contribute to open-source softwares. Why are people writing software for free & giving them to the world like charity? And how you can get started too!

1. How & why contribute
to open-source
The story of an undergrad
- Akshesh Doshi

2. About myself
● Akshesh Doshi
● Data Engineer @ Agoda
● Live in Bangkok, Thailand
● I am from Udaipur, Rajasthan (the desert state of India)

4. CITY OF LAKES

5. Rest of the talk
2 simple questions:
● Why contribute to open-source?
● How contribute to open-source?

6. Why to start contributing to open-source

7. Why?
1. Best mentors in the world
● The experts of the field will review
your code
● Work & collaborate with industry leaders

8. Why?
2. Work with the best
tools/integrations
● Evolves very quickly because anyone can
contribute
● Be the latest & greatest from CI/CD tools to
project/dependency management

9. Why?
3. Work with latest industry standards
You can write “efficient” code. BUT do you
● write “readable”, “tested” & “documented” code?
● know what is version control, pull requests, bug trackers?
● collaborate with the communities on Slack, IRC?

10. Why?
4. Gain relevant experience
● Many of these tools are already being used by
tech giants on production!
● Upto 100,000s people might use your code
depending on which project you work on 😍

11. How to start contributing to open-source

12. How?
Step 0: Where these projects are

13. How?
1. Start simple

14. How?
1. Start simple
● Start with your own favourite project
● It is easy to contribute if you know what the software does

15. How?
2. Find easy tickets/tasks

16. How?
2. Find easy tickets/tasks
● Many projects have #good-first-issue tickets
● Start with writing tests or documentation
● Review other people’s code

17. How?
3. Get familiar with the project owners
● Projects owners know issues for beginners & can also help you
● Talk with them on Slack, IRC, mailing list, etc.
● Help others if you want others to help you - you’re a part of a “community”

18. How?
4. Let some swag motivate you
● Google Summer of Code
● Hacktoberfest
● Google Code-In (Concluded in 2019
but keep an eye on new programs ;)

19. ☺
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