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<p>Hello Calvin,</p>
<p>welcome aboard! :-D<br>
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<p>First off all, I am not a developer but a contributer of the
LibreOffice project, but I want to try to help you.<br>
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Am 05.05.2018 um 13:32 schrieb Calvin:<br>
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2nd: You failed with the first word. Colonial times are happily gone
and hopefully never come back.<br>
We are a very diverse community, scattered around the globe with all
kinds of people.<br>
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am Om Pandey , a college student from India , I got to know
about Gsoc and open source contribution in December 2017 ,
Since then i have been trying to contribute to the open source
community </div>
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am in my freshmen year of college and i have been trying to
look out for ways of contribution to the open source community
with all failed attempts i am completely lost as what i should
do or where i should start please guide me so that i can learn
to contribute .</div>
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Which kind of guidance do you need? In which field do you want to
work?<br>
As a first starting point:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/">https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/</a><br>
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chose to message this organisation as I myself am a vry avid
user of LibreOffice and use it to document all my files and
work and would hence like to contribute .</div>
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guide me as to what is to be done , i know most of the
technologies which have been listed in your Gsoc page
inculding</div>
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and many more</div>
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Our code base is very complex, legacy, convoluted and needs a lot of
love and work. Nobody understands it its whole.<br>
So you often need a "specialist" as mentor in the area you want to
work. But we are all helpful.<br>
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I am not understanding as to what is to be done , where and
how to start and what to do , I wanted to be a part in Gsoc
2018 , but failed due to lack of guidance , please tell me as
to what is to be done.</div>
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Unhappily, too late for GSoC 2018 for sure, for all projects
involved. But you can dive in our team, beginning with building the
source, finding interesting pieces. Also lurking around and asking
in our IRC dev channel #libreoffice-dev @ freenode.net is not the
worst idea. Your advantage is then to be more familiar with the code
for the next GSoC 2019 and knowing better yourself what you want and
intend to do and what not. <br>
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have an entire year to go ,please guide me and I promise
that to the best of my efforts I shall perform.</div>
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Truly,</div>
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Pandey </div>
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Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Sophia Schröder
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German Language Team
LibreOffice.org
IRC: SophiaS</pre>
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