# Willing to make open source contributions, getting started with GSoC

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/willing-to-make-open-source-contributions-getting-started-with-gsoc/75217>\
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**Created:** [January 26, 2022, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/willing-to-make-open-source-contributions-getting-started-with-gsoc/75217 "2022-01-26T07:57:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vedika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vedika](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Vedika)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/willing-to-make-open-source-contributions-getting-started-with-gsoc/75217/1 "2022-01-26T07:57:52Z")

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Hello everyone! I am Vedika Chandra, a first year student in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at IIT (BHU) Varanasi. I am willing to make open source contributions to the organization but I’m pretty unsure how to go ahead with it. How can I proceed further, what are the pre-requisites and the best resources to get started with? Please do guide me for the same.  
Thank You!

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**Author:** ![lawless-m](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lawless-m/32/30869_2.png) [@lawless-m](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lawless-m)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 9:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/willing-to-make-open-source-contributions-getting-started-with-gsoc/75217/2 "2022-01-26T09:25:49Z")

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The most general advice is:

Find a topic you are interested in.  
Find a project related to that topic.  
Write code using that project.  
Talk about that code somewhere - here on Discourse, Slack, write a blog etc.  
Improve the project code somehow, either fix an issue or add a feature.  
Submit a Pull Request to the Project with your new code.

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**Author:** ![jbrea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jbrea/32/3879_2.png) [@jbrea](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jbrea)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 9:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/willing-to-make-open-source-contributions-getting-started-with-gsoc/75217/3 "2022-01-26T09:52:41Z")

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Hi @Vedika. Did you have already a look at the GSoC projects and application guidelines [here](https://julialang.org/jsoc/)?

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**Author:** ![Vedika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vedika](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Vedika)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/willing-to-make-open-source-contributions-getting-started-with-gsoc/75217/4 "2022-01-26T14:59:09Z")

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Thank you so much for your suggestions! I would start working on the same. Could you please share some resources from where I could begin learning Julia language?

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**Author:** ![Vedika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vedika](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Vedika)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/willing-to-make-open-source-contributions-getting-started-with-gsoc/75217/5 "2022-01-26T15:01:40Z")

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Yes, I did go through them, but I’m pretty confused about the project I should go ahead with as of now.

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**Author:** ![lawless-m](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lawless-m/32/30869_2.png) [@lawless-m](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lawless-m)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/willing-to-make-open-source-contributions-getting-started-with-gsoc/75217/6 "2022-01-26T15:16:35Z")

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> **[Get started with Julia](https://julialang.org/learning/)**
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> The official website for the Julia Language. Julia is a language that is fast, dynamic, easy to use, and open source. Click here to learn more.

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**Author:** ![Vedika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vedika](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Vedika)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/willing-to-make-open-source-contributions-getting-started-with-gsoc/75217/7 "2022-01-26T15:17:37Z")

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Thank you so much!