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1. Is it possible to work on these open source projects with some guidance/mentoring opportunities without the pay? I'm really interested in contributing/being part of an OS project but I have so far not been able to find beginner-intermediate level bugs for which I would need some level of handholding at least in the initial stages. I tried this for 2 apache projects trying to contribute but I could not get anyone to respond to my queries and I didn't continue with this further.

2. Are people who are not students allowed to work on these ideas/issues now or in the future? I have found these "ideas" to be available only during gsoc, but orgs in general I'm finding it hard to find these starter level ideas to get going.

If people are available for mentoring please let me know. I would be really grateful to learn from you guys. I'm open to learning languages as necessary. I'm good with Python, exposed to C and Java, able to read go.

I like the projects - django, mariadb, postgresql, python, git, kde - but i'm open to other projects as well.

I'm a long term GSoC mentor and org admin. In my experience most free software projects are always happy to have new contributors. And if you ask, many will gladly hand hold you through the initial stages.

In fact, personally speaking, I would be more willing to do so outside of GSoC than within the confines of a Summer of Code program. Usually because it indicates a slightly greater level of interest, and more importantly we're not under a time pressure to get things done. It's more relaxed this way making the whole process more enjoyable.

Hit me up and I can introduce you to multiple projects within the GNU ecosystem that would love to have a new contributor.

Hi, could you please introduce me to some communities.

I am not a beginner but not an expert too. I love to contribute to open source communities when I am free. I also lead an open source community in my institute to introduce my juniors to use and contribute to open source .

You can always contact various GNU projects directly. The list of projects we had available for 2021 are listed here: https://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2021.html

You can also try to get in touch with multiple projects via the gnu-soc mailing list on the gnu domain.

If you'd like to contact me directly, you can reach me on my username on the gnu domain.

Hello! Can you provide me some mean to contact you (or contact me) as well? I'm interested, and have professional resources, in participating to welcoming/established open source projects.

You can reach me on my username on the gnu org domain

The GSOC projects are not trivial ones, AFAIK, so the target is a bit different from yours. I also think that the project you mention are complex, with multiple reasons for the high barrier to entry.

If you like OSs, and you're looking for a low barrier to entry, my guess is that you could try working on Wine. I remember seeing fixes that are the addition of a constant or so (but I have no experience in the field, so I'm not sure). This could give you some basics, and pave your way to contribute to ReactOS.

I didn't mean GSOC are trivial. Apologies if I came across like that. My understanding is things approachable by students would be slightly easier compared to things approachable by someone working in the industry. Maybe my understanding is wrong.

Sorry, I didn't intend trivial in a disparaging sense :)

I was referring to the entry barriers due to technical difficulty.

To restate with better terms, I believe that the GSOC projects have a generally high entry barrier, due to the fact the they require knowledge in the field. I think the students are hardly beginners.

However, I may be wrong. Something very interesting is that one can open the organizations for the past years (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2020/organizatio...), pick a project (ie. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2020/projects/62...) and see the detailed report ("GET THE CODE" button).

>If people are available for mentoring please let me know. I would be really grateful to learn from you guys.

I work on listenbrainz.org [0] by the MetaBrainz Foundation [1]. We use Python, React, Spark and a bunch of other stuff. I'm happy to help you get started with one of MetaBrainz's projects if you want. My email is in my profile.

[0]: https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-server

[1]: https://metabrainz.org

Wow. Did not expect to meet you unexpectedly here. One of your juniors at the college your institute was mentoring :)

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