GET, SET, GO !!!

My Powerhouse: FOSS Club

•  Guiding students for more than 10 years
•  What you sow, so shall you reap :')
•  Our motto: Code, Share and Grow!
•   FOSS Alumni in prestigious companies or pursuing Masters/PhD in top universities.
•  11 GSoC and Outreachy interns in 2016
   

Source: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/06/more-statistics-from-google-summer-of.html​​

Target Audience

Been there, done that!

Taking baby steps...

OR

How did I reach here?

• Studied biology in high school
• unexpected entry into Computer Science 
• fiddled around with application development
• Yayyy programming :') 

Don't know coding ?

Don't worry, learn while you contribute!

Entry to open source

•  Joined FOSS@Amrita
•  Mentored by seniors
•  Tasks assigned 
•  Designed a website
•  Contributed to open source
•  Wrote articles concerning open source
•  Worked with Django framework

Conversation with a Rails enthusiast made me fall in love with RoR!!

New community,

                     New beggining.

My strengths

•  Interest in open source
•  Have a good grip over Command line
•  Familiar with version control system-Git
•  E-mail etiquettes
•  IRC and Slack
•  Know how to Google effectively

Easy way: framework=>language

Initial stage

• Documentations and video tutorials
• Architecture and workflow of an app
• Made my first app :)

What's next?

What if I try bug fixing?

• Documentation bugs

• Bugs with other tags  ???

Confused and upset!!

Really in need of a mentor.

Emails, IRC.....Nothing worked!!

Change of track.

Learn the basics first.

•  Work on a project
•  Work under coaches
•  Learn while building
•  Get connected to many RoR developers
•  Work as a team

How RGSoC Works ??

Tasks:

•  Find a team-mate
•  Find coaches, mentors.
•  Select a project.
•  Plan.
•  know people in the community

Target : RGSoC 2017

•  Made some basic apps, what's next?
•  Fixing solid bugs
•  Getting guidance
•  How to apply the little bits of knowledge?

Challenges faced!!

•  Ask doubts
•  Make maximum use of platforms like IRC, Slack

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What did I learn?

• Understand the workflow
• learn while you build

What did I learn?

•  Language=>Framework (It works!!)
•  Find out the issues by yourselves

What did I learn?

• Attend Meetup's, Conferences
• Get connected to the community

What did I learn?

PATIENCE IS KEY !!

DESIRE TO LEARN.

•  Support from community
•  Easy to get started, difficult to continue
•  Rails - friendly, good documentation
•  Videos and online tutorials- Codecademy, RubyMonk.
•  Meetups and conferences (like this one)
•  Programmes like RGSoC.

Engaging Newbies!!

• Thinking from beginner's perspective
•  Active forum for discussion
•  More online workshops
•  Competitions for newbies

Aur kya ?

•  Found something ?       Discuss about it
•  Have an innovative idea ?     Speak it out
•  Fixed something?      Write about it

Code, Share and Grow

 anaghar1996@gmail.com
 Twitter:  @Anagha_RK

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Thanks a lot!! Audience, RubyConfIndia2017, Organisers and my team FOSS@Amrita...