[dgplug-users] Need testimonials for summer training

[Devyani Kota]

Hi all,

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 6:49 PM, 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
>

This is Devyani Kota, final year CS undergrad in Dr.B.C.Roy Engineering
College, Durgapur. twitter handle : @devyanikota .
My blog : https://devyani7kota.wordpress.com/
Currently contributes to fedora-infrastructure applications.


> * How did you learn about the training?
>

I learnt about the training from my college seniors, Subhendu Ghosh and
Sayan Chowdhury, and Chandan Kumar.


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

Dgplug summer training is the only reason that am an open source contributor
now. During this training I learnt about version control and other tools.
Most importantly, it helped me learn being a part of the community, meeting
like-minded people and learn stuff together.


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

I have contributed to upstream projects like mirrormanager2, pkgdb2, and
currently hacking on fedora hubs. Details :
My first accepted patch was for mirrormanager2-
https://github.com/fedora-infra/mirrormanager2
then pkgdb2- https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2/
Merged PR's for mirrormanager2 and pkgdb2 :
1. https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3ADevyani-Divs+is%3Aclosed

Few PR's for fedora-hubs<https://pagure.io/fedora-hubs> :
2. https://pagure.io/fedora-hubs/pull-requests?status=False&author=devyani7
Am learning a lot while contributing to opensource,


> * Any tips for the next batch of participants.
>
> I would say that if you wish to get started with opensource then this
training is what
you should be attending this summer. It will help you learn to speak in
public-forums
and ofcourse meet awesome people, mentors and friends with the same will
and get you
started with open-source.
Cheers !
Last but not the least, we all owe it to dgplug !! :)

Thanks and Regards,
Devyani Kota.

https://about.me/devyanikota