[dgplug-users] Need testimonials for summer training

[Palash Chatterjee]

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
>

Palash Chatterjee
4th year Computer Science student at Techno India, Salt Lake
Github : https://github.com/pecey

* How did you learn about the training?
>

​I stumbled across dgplug when I was searching for summer trainings, a
couple of years back.​


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

​I am not a familiar face, since I didn't take part in the training
actively. I used the logs available on the site. As far as changing my life
is concerned, it surely did. I started coding in Python and started loving
it.


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

​As far as open source contribution is concerned, I am a newbie. I started
contributing just a couple of days back.​ I am currently contributing to
DDG, trying to fix small bugs. I hope to soon contribute to projects like
Fedora.



> * Any tips for the next batch of participants.
>

​One mistake which I made when I started my college life was  that I got
intimidated very easily.  I thought of contributing to the open source when
I was in my 2nd year, but got intimidated. I had this fear that I am not
good enough to contribute. But once you start contributing, you realise
that the open source community is much more welcoming than it seems. I have
been using Github for the last 2 years approx. And I learnt more about git
in the past month, once I started contributing, than I learnt in my
previous years.  ​I realised it pretty late. Hope you realise it sooner.


> Feel free to add anything else you want to talk about​


> Kushal
> --
> Fedora Cloud Engineer
> CPython Core Developer
> http://kushaldas.in
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-- 
Palash Chatterjee