How to get started with Open Source

I have been involved in Durgapur Linux User’s Group for around last five years. I have been contributing to various open source projects quite sometime. The primary reason on why I contribute to open source is the feeling, the enjoyment when you send a patch or a PR to a open source project. It makes you happy when millions of people use your few lines of code in day to day life. ...

2014-03-04 · 8 min · Sayan Chowdhury

Mozilla Summit 2013

I could not sleep the night i got the invitation mail from Mozilla to attend Mozilla Summit 2013. I was roaming around my college hostel waking up everybody from their sleep just to tell them that “I have been invited to Mozilla Summit 2013 at Santa Clara, CA”. I was really very excited as this was be my first international travel. Finally the month of October came. rtnpro and I left for bangalore airport early (all due to exitement). At airport, we met with other mozillians who were on the same flight. After the checkin and the security check (i was really scared during the security check, i kept on thinking “What will happen if they cancel my trip”), we boarded the flight to Dubai from where we had the connecting flight to San Francisco. ...

2013-11-02 · 4 min · Sayan Chowdhury