The talk presents about recipes to get your started in Open Source and how you can become an open source contributor by following step by step procedure. I gave this talk at FOSSCON India, Belgavi on 30/Aug/2019.

1. RECIPES TO GET STARTED IN
OPEN SOURCE
- Suneet Srivastava (@codedsun)

2. About Me
● SDE at OYE! Rickshaw
● Google Code-in Mentor
FOSSASIA -2017,18
● Contributor at FOSSASIA, ODK,
NextCloud, OwnCloud
● Famous by name @codedsun on
interweb

3. OPEN SOURCE ?

4. OPEN SOURCE ?

5. Audience
Be like..

6. Why! Contribute to Open Source
Gain Experience / Knowledge 📖
Find ‘like minded’ people 🧠
Ability to mentor, get feedback from community 👨
🏫
Build a great portfolio 📝

7. Fear Among People?
I am not a ‘CODER’
I can’t understand such large codebase
How do I start / execute...blah…?

8. Reality...

9. Recipes
for

10. Build( ) Process - Tech
Programming
Language
Git Open Source
Organisation
Contribute

11. Recipe 1
Programming Language
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12. Programming Language
Find a programming language and get comfortable with it

13. Programming Language
Find a programming language and get comfortable with it
Build some basic applications using the programming
language

14. Recipe 2
Git & Github
git-cd /..
git fetch
git clone
git …

15. Git & Github
● Learn about basics of git
Few commands like
git init, git push, git pull,...etc

16. Git & Github
● Learn about basics of git
● Learn about basics of github
(Review a PR, send a PR….)

17. Git & Github
● Learn about basics of git
● Learn about basics of github
● Practice!!

18. Recipe 3
Open Source
Organizations

19. Open Source Organizations

20. Open Source Organizations

21. Open Source Organizations
For every organization,
1. Check their description
2. Check what projects do they have
3. Read about their projects and languages.

22. Choose an Organization
Choose something you ‘do’ regularly

23. Choose an Organization
Checklist
Well maintained project
✔ Has Latest Commit
✔ Has Latest Release
✔ Has Latest Issues

24. Choose an Organization
Checklist
Active Organization
✔ Has active contributors
✔ Has mentors as reviewers and helpers

25. Till Now
➔ Learnt a programming language
➔ Learnt about Organizations and how to choose a
project
➔ Talked about Git

26. Recipe 4
Contribute

27. Contribute
Learn about the project readme

28. Contribute
Learn about the project readme
Setup the project and explore the project for a while

29. Contribute
Learn about the project readme
Setup the project and explore the project for a while
Watch the issues, PR reviews and the conversation in the
chat channel (gitter, irc ..)

30. Contribute
In the issues section, just understand the issues and pickup
the ‘beginner’ issues.
Also, comment
‘ I want to take this issue’
Or
‘ I am working on this issue’

31. Contribute
In the issues section, just pick up an issue and comment
‘ I want to take this issue’
Also, if you need help.. Ping the maintainer

32. Contribute
Respect the community members
and be polite in the community.

33. Contribute

34. Contribute
After, you have
fixed the issue,
Commit
Send a Pull Request
And Pray !!🙏

35. Contribute

36. That’s It!
Congratulations on becoming an
Open Source Contributor

37. Results ;)
Let’s see what you get

38. Unlimited Swags

39. Unlimited Learning

40. Get Recognized, Get paid..

41. https://tinyurl.com/paidopensource

42. Thankyou..
Connect with me at
@dSuneetSri
@codedsun
@SuneetSrivastava
@codedsun