<div dir="ltr">Agreed and well said.<div>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. <b>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.</b></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://blog.hackerearth.com/2014/03/how-to-get-started-with-open-source.html">http://blog.hackerearth.com/2014/03/how-to-get-started-with-open-source.html</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:49 PM, sankarshan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foss.mailinglists@gmail.com" target="_blank">foss.mailinglists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Giriraj Sharma<br>
<<a href="mailto:giriraj.sharma27@gmail.com">giriraj.sharma27@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> It will also be good if you mention about popular open source contribution<br>
> programs like GSoC and OPW.<br>
<br>
</span>GSoC, OPW and similar programs do expect a reasonable familiarity with<br>
the project as well as appreciation of how large projects work (eg.<br>
communication methods, bug tracker, documentation etc). Particularly,<br>
<<a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page#13._Should_students_contact_the" target="_blank">http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page#13._Should_students_contact_the</a>><br>
is relevant.<br>
<br>
10. Should students contact the mentoring organization before the<br>
program begins?<br>
<br>
If you're interested in contributing to a particular open source<br>
project, there's no need to wait forGoogle Summer of Code to start;<br>
start talking in the project's IRC channel, subscribe to the<br>
development mailing lists, take a look through the bug tracker and<br>
submit a patch. If you see something that you think would make a<br>
particularly good project for Google Summer of Code, why not suggest<br>
it to the organization?<br>
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sankarshan mukhopadhyay<br>
<<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan</a>><br>
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