#### Contributing to Open Source Software (OSS) --- #### Who Am I? <span style="font-size:0.75em;"> * Software Engineer at Quansight (developing PyTorch) * Contributed to PyTorch, MXNet, Chainer, etc. * Previously Machine Learning Engineer (in NLP and CV) * Not from CS background (only language university taught us was C 😔 ) * Learnt Python by wandering in the wild! </span> --- ### What is OSS? --- #### Brief History * Richard Stallman (pioneer) * Sharing your recipe * Imagine world without OSS 😨 --- #### Does anyone even use it? * Recent Mars Ingenuity Helicopter * If you use Python * If you are using any cloud service * If you use Android * If you use .... --- #### Why should I spend my time? * People will use your code! 😁 * Learning 📜 * Ability to work in a team and interact! 🤝 * Meet new people! 👩‍💻 * Get introduced to new tools and technologies (debuggers, linters)🔧 * Might land a new job 💻 --- #### Hopefully you are interested by now 🤓 --- #### Start Slow --- My experience First Pytorch PR terrible 🤢 Took 9 months to get accepted! Lots of rookie mistakes! --- Start Date  --- End Date 🎉  --- #### Experience * Patience * Lot of learning * Got to interact with **really** smart people --- ## Tips --- #### Choosing the project to work on * Personal Project that you really love * Some library that you use a lot (eg. NumPy, pandas) * Be sure to choose an active project * Project with developer guide and good documentation --- #### Things to remember * Ask for help! Nobody expects you to know everything * Be polite, humble and **patient** * There is no stupid question! --- #### Thank You! Github Handle: kshitij12345 LinkedIn: kshiteejkalambarkar