GSoC 2024 - From Zero to Hero 🚀 (Open Source)

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➡ GSoC is a three-month internship program for passionate student programmers and developers.

🌟 How to start ?

1. Start with GSoC Archive - https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive[

  1. Go through the organization’s page of GSoC 2023 and 2022 (if you have time then 2021 also).

  2. Find out the organizations that are participating every year. Chances are they will participate again. So you already have an idea about the participating organizations before the “organization announced” period.
    Note: Make a list of organizations that uses tools & technologies that you are familiar with.

  3. Give at least a week or more to select 2–3 organizations and 2–3 projects that you find easier to contribute (with a lot of beginner level issues) or with active mentors.

  4. Start with “easy to fix”, “junior”, “good first issue”, “beginner” level issues. What if you can’t find any? In such a case, create some. Click every button or link that you can find in the application, maybe you will find some bug. Apply all possible combinations of actions that might help you find a bug.
    ➡ Note : You must know how to use Git and GitHub. 🚀

  • What if the project has thousands of lines of code? Well, you are a student who wants to contribute not create. The project took a lot of pull requests and a lot of time to be what it looks now. So instead of thinking that the project is too big, focus on issues. “change a line”, “add 2 lines”, “change 3 lines” etc. that’s how it works.

✨ One good proposal is better than many proposals. If your proposal is not good then chances are less that you will be a part of GSoC-24

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