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My journey to RDO community

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Chandan Kumar

Chandan Kumar details their journey contributing to open source software projects, beginning with translations and documentation work and eventually becoming a full-time employee working on OpenStack and the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RDO). They encourage others to get involved through activities like bug reporting, testing, localization, documentation, packaging, and code contributions. With hard work, patience, and guidance from mentors, it's never too late to start contributing to free and open source software projects.

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My journey to RDO Community By Chandan Kumar
About me: A translator turned free software contributor
Upstream Contribution
dgplug summer training 2011
Do you want to see your name next time you install GNU/Linux in your friends computer?
Translation using Transifex
VLC 2.0 in Hindi
PyCon India 2012
More contributions leads to more responsibilities.
GSOC 2013 and Red Hat intern
Trying to find out the public IP of an instance leads to contributing to OpenStack.
Resulted in full time associate by Dec, 2013.
PyCon India 2014
Rebooting Python Pune
Packstack -> OpenStack Packages -> RDO meetings -> RDO contributions
RDO full timer by Sept, 2016
All possible because of: Hard work Patience Masters/mentors
To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master, And teach others!
Too much love for passion also leads to burnout and frustrations.
Long/short break from work. Talking with community. Saying Thank you! Drink more water.
Reached a Goal what next?
Plan your new adventure and start working.
Why you should start contributing to Free Software?
Getting a better job with good salary. Learn/Improve skills. Building your reputation (& career) along the way.
How you can start contributing to free software?
Bug Reporting Testing (test days) Localization Documentation Packaging Contributing code Design & Artwork Promoting
Look for keywords in getting involved page: Easyfix (RDO, Fedora) Low hanging fruits (OpenStack) Gnome-love (Gnome) Junior Jobs (KDE) Level:Beginners Easy Good for new contributors
Its never too late, take an effort and start contributing and achieve your dream!
Thanks! Questions? tweet at @chkumar246
References: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html https://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/open-source-jobs-report-2017/ https://sayanchowdhury.dgplug.org/how-to-get-started-with-open-source/ http://www.sanyamkhurana.com/blog/why-contribute-to-foss.html https://dgplug.org/ https://www.rdoproject.org/documentation/onboarding/ http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/how-to-contribute-to-openstack/ whatcanidoforfedora.org

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