[dgplug-users] Need testimonials for summer training

[Suraj Deshmukh]

Hi Kushal,

On 15 February 2016 at 18:49, Kushal Das <mail at kushaldas.in> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We will soon open up the call for summer training 2016. We want to
> publish a series of testimonials of our previous years' participants from
> the training. If you want to participate in that, please reply me off
> list (as a reply to this mail) with text, and one recent photo for the
> blog posts :)
>
> Things you may want to write in the post:
>
> * Your name (blog/twitter) and what do you do

Name: Suraj Deshmukh
Twitter: @surajssd009005
Blog: https://deshmukhsuraj.wordpress.com/
What I do: I work as an Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat


> * How did you learn about the training?

>From Chandan Kumar, when he was attending an event at my college.

> * How this training changed (if at all) your life?

It has entirely changed the course of my life. It paved a way into
open-source for me. It helped me get a job at Red Hat. I found people
with similar interests. I found people whom I can talk geeky stuff
with ;). I learnt things that you otherwise learn the hard way. It
wouldn't have had possible without training. I learnt how to get into
community and start doing things, in a way made me confident enough to
ask things on mailing lists. It has shown me how can you help others
by writing code. Before training I just knew things by their name
never got a chance or say push to start things but being in training
helped me do that. And most of all I made friends for my life.


> * Have you contributed to any upstream project(s)? If yes, then details.

Before joining Red Hat, I have been contributing to Project Scapy and
Openstack as a part of my job I contribute to project called as
AtomicApp which is a sub-project of Project Atomic.


> * Any tips for the next batch of participants.

What I would like to say to new participants is that #dgplug is a
ladder to reach open-source world and do stuff that really interests
you, where you can hack with stuff and you are free to do things you
like. And believe me, when you do things that you like without
bothering if you are getting paid just for the sake of your passion,
someday you will be paid to live your passion. Final word: get along
with the training learn things, ask questions and start contributing
to open-source project.

>
> Feel free to add anything else you want to talk about.
>
> Kushal
> --
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> CPython Core Developer
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