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Asked by Swapnil Sunil Gondkar

Hello Everybody ,
I am a IT Engineering student from Mumbai . I want to start participating in the open source projects.I know programming languages such as Java,C,C++ ,.net etc but not on the professional front. But i want to get involved so can anybody guide me? so as to which project to start etc...

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Ankur Banerjee (ankurb) said : 		#1

I would suggest you to read up some of the books here: http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20090405061458383/20oftheBestFreeLinuxBooks-Part1.html

They'll give you a good idea of philosophy behind open source, basic programming, even advanced programming. You can then start playing around with code of some of the easier projects and then move up to more complex ones.

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Jim J (morlockhq) said : 		#2

I would suggest the second step is to find a project that you are interested in and join the developer's mailling list. At first, just read a lot of what is going on. After you get comfortable with how the community of developer's operates, take a look at the code and, based on information from the mailling list, see if there are any bugs you might be able to squash. From there, see what contributions they need and pick one that you think you can implement.

It appears that contributing to an open source project is an evolutionary process. Small steps build on each other and before you know it, you can find yourself developing for and in the community.

Good luck.

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peter (peter-neuweiler) said : 		#3

Nice answers.
Peter

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Swapnil Sunil Gondkar (chanakya-ssg-yahoo) said : 		#4

thanks for al help ...