My Open Source journey experience

Here I will share my experience when contributing to open source projects, to help newcomers on what they can learn from Open Source and about its power.

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1. My Open source contribution journey Bowrna, Open Source Contributor, Apache Airflow
2. Who am I? • Self-taught programmer • Built backend systems for about 8 years in Mad Street Den and Zoho • Outreachy Intern for Apache Airflow - Dec 2021 Cohort • Active Open Source Contributor to Apache Airflow
3. First steps into Open Source Finding right project • Pick one or two project that works for you • Check if the project is active and accepting contribution Understanding project • Read the project documentation and CONTRIBUTOR guidelines • Join the slack channel / chat rooms for the project • Subscribe to the email list Making first contribution • Check for beginner-friendly issues or documentation related issues • Check for issues in feature if you are aware of the project
4. How did I make my first contribution?
5. Challenges while raising my first Pull Request Rebasing code Using git commands to raise PR with clean history of commits is a huge challenge CI Pipeline fails Automated test pipelines fails after committing the code Resolving conversation Giving response for code reviews by others in the community
6. What next? More reading work starts… • Read other’s Pull Request • Read issues posted • Subscribe to the issues if you think it is useful to watch it
7. Some important qualities developed after contributing to OS
8. Being Consistent
10. Perseverance
12. Written form of communication is way more powerful
14. Why Open Source? • Peer learning from code contributors across the world • Learning the code process from submitting PR , writing tests, documentation • Active contribution in OS looks great than words in resume
15. 9% Total number of women users in Github
17. Thank you! I am reachable via: Twitter: @bowrna_p LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bowrna/