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Hello,

I'm a senior computer science student currently wrapping up my last
semester. I've speicalized in cybersecurity in my coursework, but at
the cost of not doing as much programming as I'd really like in order
to stay sharp. I've been using Fedora on my laptop for most of the
semester after looking for a Linux distro that fell in line with what I
want, and I fell in love with using it. I'm looking to contribute to
the project really in whatever way I can. This will be my first time
contributing to an open source project (or really anything that isn't
for school), so I'm at a loss as to where I should start.

Sincerely,
Trever Melehan

[Benjamin J. Thompson]

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Great to hear Trever, and welcome!

I'm new here too but in most large open source projects you'll be
expected to figure out for yourself how you're going to contribute.
Check out the SIGs and join a few lists, hang out in chat. You'll get
to know how things flow in that community and eventually a task will
jump out at you that you'll want to tackle.

Be willing to try stuff and read a lot and then, finally, ask
questions. Maybe join one of the interest groups centered around your
favorite programming language to start.

On Wed, 2022-03-23 at 13:06 -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a senior computer science student currently wrapping up my last
> semester. I've speicalized in cybersecurity in my coursework, but at
> the cost of not doing as much programming as I'd really like in order
> to stay sharp. I've been using Fedora on my laptop for most of the
> semester after looking for a Linux distro t

hat fell in line with what
> I
> want, and I fell in love with using it. I'm looking to contribute to
> the project really in whatever way I can. This will be my first time
> contributing to an open source project (or really anything that isn't
> for school), so I'm at a loss as to where I should start.
>
> Sincerely,
> Trever Melehan
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[Ankur Sinha]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 17:56:12 +0000, Benjamin J. Thompson wrote:
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> Great to hear Trever, and welcome!
>
> I'm new here too but in most large open source projects you'll be
> expected to figure out for yourself how you're going to contribute.
> Check out the SIGs and join a few lists, hang out in chat. You'll get
> to know how things flow in that community and eventually a task will
> jump out at you that you'll want to tackle.
>
> Be willing to try stuff and read a lot and then, finally, ask
> questions. Maybe join one of the interest groups centered around your
> favorite programming language to start.

+1

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