Sometime around April last year I attended a FOSS conference and found interest in contributing to open source projects.

Deciding on which project to contribute to?

GNOME attracted me not just because I was a happy user but also because of the amazing development tools it has (especially jhbuild!).

Which apps in GNOME?

I love games! So I started off talking to Michael Catanzaro (#mcatanzaro) and he helped me out picking and fixing my first bug in “tali”.

Thereafter, I continued looking for and fixing issues and improving the existing games code.

I’m now one of the primary maintainers of gnome-chess and I’m having a blast!

Help will always be given at GNOME-IRC to those who ask for it!

Looking back its been an awesome journey from attaching my first patch to becoming a foundation member!