What I learned from contributing to open source

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@hackerkid Vishnu Ks W-I-L-F-C-T-O-S GeekHaven Quick Talks Powered with ❤ by GitHub

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@hackerkid Zulip GitHub Campus Experts

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@hackerkid Phase #1

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@hackerkid #Try To Commit Every Day

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@hackerkid My GitHub In 2014

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@hackerkid My GitHub In 2015

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@hackerkid Put all your code On GitHub

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@hackerkid Put all your code on github ● Topcoder/Codeforces problems you solved ● Semester projects ● Personal projects ● List of books you read ● dotfiles ● research paper

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@hackerkid Work On A Side Project

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@hackerkid Phase 2

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@hackerkid If you are thinking about contributing, you are good enough. Challenge yourself and fight your impostor syndrome

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@hackerkid

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@hackerkid

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@hackerkid Most projects have specific label for issues that are suited for beginners. Zulip has bit-size issues.

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@hackerkid ● http://up-for-grabs.net ● http://issuehub.io ● http://www.firsttimersonly.com ● http://yourfirstpr.github.io ● https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners ● http://docsdoctor.org ● http://PullRequestRoulette.com ● http://24pullrequests.com Issues to Get Started for Beginners

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@hackerkid Setting Up The Development Environment Is The Hard Part Most of The Time

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@hackerkid ● Choose An Issue and Spend One or Two Day on It. ● Don’t give up. ● Life is much simpler after you solve complete first issue.

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@hackerkid One does not try to read the entire code base

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@hackerkid The number of lines in Zulip is 4,85,395

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@hackerkid grep -rnw “key word” .

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@hackerkid Don’t know what a line of code does? > git log -S “line of code”

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@hackerkid Learn from Git History of a File

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@hackerkid Brandon Keepers, GitHub

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@hackerkid Open Source is the ultimate referral Chris Dibona, Google

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@hackerkid So, which project are you going to contribute to?

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@hackerkid Special Thanks To @bkeepers and @joenash GitHub

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