KWoC-2021 | Kharagpur Winter of Code Project Report
Open Source Software Development Program
What is Kharagpur Winter of Code (KWoC) ?
Kharagpur Winter of Code is a 5-week long online program for students who are new to open source software development. The program not only helps students to get involved in open source, but also prepares them for many open source summer programs; Google Summer of Code being one of them.
Projects I worked on
1st-Contribution
Project Name: notation-converter
Project Admin: Aditya Bisoi
Pull Request: This was my first Pull Request in KWoC 2021-2022, where I enhanced the UI of the Readme.md file by adding badges to highlight the stats of the project and fixing the navigating links of Table of Contents.
2nd-Contribution
Project Name: public-sentiment-analysis-based-on-twitter-hashtags
Project Admin: Sayantan Kirtaniya
Pull Request: In this project too, I basically contributed to the Readme.md file where I fixed the alignment of certain texts, changed the font size of few headings and added the contributors list at the end to showcase project's contributors in the Readme file itself.
Summary of Work and Personal thoughts on KWoC
Open Source refers to the philosophy of collaboration whereby people are encouraged to fork, modify, discuss, and contribute to any ongoing project which can be a mere typo fix or fixing a bug but both of them counts to a large extent in making a project successful. It doesn't have to be a code every time for contributing and hence starters can always begin to contribute to projects just like I did. I have basic knowledge of Markdown language and I just never thought of not contributing just because it wasn't a piece of code because your Readme presentation is as important as your code and therefore I took part in Kharagpur Winter of Code contributing to the above projects and it was a great learning experience for beginners like me to get the exposure of a beginner-friendly Open Source Program with supportive Mentors and administrators and thus building the Open Source community much stronger and larger than before. Looking forward to contribute more in Open Source and all thanks to KWoC but till then Happy Coding folks !