I’m Girish Kumar Yadav, a Computer Science student eager to contribute to OSGeo as a complete beginner in open-source development. I’m reaching out to seek guidance on how to get started.
My tech stack includes Java, C, Python, HTML, CSS, and SQL, along with beginner-level skills in UI/UX design and web development. I’d love to contribute to projects where my skills might be useful, and any recommendations for beginner-friendly repositories or tasks would be incredibly helpful.
Additionally, if there are any specific resources or best practices for new contributors within OSGeo, I’d be grateful for the insight. Thank you in advance for your guidance – I’m excited about the opportunity to contribute and grow with OSGeo.
We often advise folks to look at the OSGeo Live project which offers a tour of free and open source software for geospatial (foss4g) technologies to new people. The result is a USB or bootable VM or something which can be used to try out stuff.
It is a nice way to get started as you can get some experience with different projects and see what you find interesting.
It also provides an example of how to work with others, communicate in public, make pull-requests, sign up to am email list (or discussion forum) and have some fun while doing it.