[OSM-dev] Regarding contribution in GSOC 2018

[Peter Barth]

Hello Biswesh,

great to see interested students that early. Let me start by noting that
it's still a bit time until we know if Google even accepts us as a
mentoring organization!

For development related questions this mailing list you choose is a good
start. You might also want to check out our IRC channels[1], channel
#osm for general talk, #osm-dev for technical, developer chat and later
that year we'll use #osm-gsoc for GSoC related talk again. Feel free to
join any of those channels for realtime chat.

Please also note, that part of the skills required for that project idea
is a good knowledge of the OSM community. Luckily you started early, so
there's still plenty of time for that ;-) I suggest you start by editing 
the map[2]. You should also try out some of our QA-Tools, use different 
editors, check out our huge list of communication channels,.. so you get 
to know our ecosystem. This should also help you to get known to our 
community.

Hope that helps for a start.

Btw, the proposer of that specific project idea (Richard) is very active 
on IRC and I guess it would be easy to catch him on channel #osm

Peda

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC
[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contribute_map_data


IMT2016050 Biswesh Mohapatra schrieb:

> I am a second year computer science student from IIIT-Bangalore. I have been working on ruby on rails for building the backend of a product on which I have been working along with a few of my classmates.
> 
> Its called CircuitVerse which is a free of cost digital simulator mostly made for students and universities. People can share the circuits which they have built. Others can fork from their circuit and work on it. The product also provides features like groups where a mentor can give assignments to the members and can keep deadlines.
> The entire backend has been made by me along with one of my friend and it uses Rails. I have provided the link for it below.
> 
> https://circuitverse.org/<http://139.59.93.86/>
> 
> I went through the last year’s GSOC idea’s list and found out that there was a project idea proposed by Richards called groups which was not implemented(correct me if I am wrong). It is a rails project and I would like to contribute to it in GSOC 2018.
> 
> I haven’t contributed to any open source project yet but I am highly interested in contributing to the organisation. I have already forked the repo and looked into the basic things.
> 
> If I can be guided on what are the things to which I can start contributing so that I can contribute to the ‘Groups' project in GSOC 2018 then I would be grateful to the organisation.
> 
> I have found it difficult to find the source to communicate to the organisation as I could not see any thing like Gitter where openstreetmap is present. Please correct me if I am wrong and guide me to a better mode of communication.

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