Guidance on contributing to OSGeo

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Hello everyone! I’m currently an undergraduate pursuing Integrated M.Tech in Geological Technology. I believe contributing to OSGeo would be a great learning experience for me but I’m completely new to open source development and would like some guidance on it.

I’m a full-stack web developer who has worked with various languages, tools, and frameworks including JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C, C++, SQL and bash. I’ve been familiar with some graphing tools too.

If there are any resources available to learn or a contributor guide for new contributors like me, it would be of great help! I would like to know for which project I can give my best.

Here is my Github page for reference: bipashabg (Bipasha Gayary) · GitHub

As I gear up for GSoC and open-source contribution in general, I’m thrilled to get started on working with OSGeo!

Thank you.
Regards,

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Both GRASS and pgRouting project participate in GSOC.

Feel free to introduce yourself in those developer categories if you find those projects interesting.

@neteler did a nice writeup of how to contribute to GRASS here - Seeking Guidance for Contributing to GRASS Development

You can see videos of GRASS from prior conferences - GRASS GIS - OSGeo which might help you with ideas

As for pgRouting take a look at what students have done in the past for ideas - Google Summer of Code · pgRouting/pgrouting Wiki · GitHub

Videos from conferences and also @cvvergara giving developer instruction around the code base - pgRouting - OSGeo

I would suggest looking at these two videos @cvvergara did during GSOC office hours -

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