 Okay, hello everyone, this is Afzal Ansari. I'm an open source enthusiast by Payson. I have been an open source contributor in a few CNC projects. So yeah, to those who don't know about CNC projects, I can give you some insights on that and it's so enjoy it. Let me this is this link to the CNC for this website. So you can say there's an alternative company foundation under which these are a few projects, pinned around, graduated Saxon, incubating for Saxon. You can go ahead and see if you did something interesting to you. So yeah, yes, so yes, I mainly focus on the DevOps side. So I try to find something which can help me to understand technology and build something on top of it. So yeah, so again, this is a great opportunity for me to talk on my topic like open source best practices in diversifying the community and this four CSEA Summit 2022. So yeah, I am very excited of you will be more excited than me. Yeah. So these are the discussing points which I'm gonna share with share my talk with you highlighting these points like how to become contributing member of open source community to become open source like contributing member. You can like set your skills, you're you know, you're comfortable with it. So once you are comfortable with some skills, let's say web development, then what you need to do is try to find some open source projects which can help you grow, I mean, build your skills. So yeah, so how it can help you once you try to contribute to any project that that makes that help you to, you know, grow skills, grow your skills and make your something sense. So let me give me some example. So this is policy. It's a foundation on which a lot of projects are pinned around here. So let's say you are comfortable with JavaScript. So you can go ahead and see what's going on. So this is like up to date, you know, as per the streak, this thing. So let me for you for your sake of simplicity, let's say these are some issues, you know, open up. Let me as for the bug issue, you can see like the person which, you know, up and proceed to issue, you can see like what's actually this is why what's the reason behind this. So yeah, this way you can try to find your, you know, way of contributing to these projects. So for example, you can search around the the codebase. So like components, what are the components behind this project. So once you are comfortable with the codebase, definitely you are enough, you have enough, you know, exploration to go ahead and, you know, try out. So, so during contributing collaboration is the best skills in open source community. So try to collaborate with the maintainers, the project contributors, other project contributors, so that you can find the real cause, real cause, real root of that issue. So again, exchange skills of the others. That means, you know, try to collaborate with your points and, you know, feel free to send your, your questions in this channel they have, maybe speaker, select channel, anything. So once you try to like once you are comfortable contributing to the project, definitely that will help you build your profiles. So highlight and promote your process that I will come to in a bit. And then again, again insights from other maintenance. So that definitely conduct the sessions. And particularly on the weekly, bi-equal maybe, or monthly meeting, you can join them and try to ask any questions you have. And once, you know, you are comfortable with your, your, your any kind of, you know, you want to speak into like try to figure out in the project, definitely you are supposed to, you know, throw your future request or anything. So yes, get recognition, acknowledging for your work. So there are a lot of things, you know, going on in the open source project. So let me go again, go ahead and again show you some other project that is coordinated, at a ratio of best projects. So this mastery, I can go ahead the mastery, you know, to call repository. And you can see like, there are a few contributors who are contributing to these projects, very, you know, very enthusiastically. So you can see this person, let's say, he has contributed to these projects. So once you are comfortable, see this, these organizations, you know, gives you awesome badges. So that is really, you know, makes you recognize in the public, help you recognize in the public, support the open source programs by sharing feedback. Yeah, definitely. When you are doing some open source projects, so feel free to share, share your feedback, get your feedback from maintenance that help you grow and develop your projects in a smooth way. So highlight and promote users, as I told, like this, I mentioned here, like, you should have wider community to use your project, to test your project, to improve your project. So and so in what first and first you need is engage contributors. Yeah, you can do in any other, in any way, the Slack channel or in the GitHub discussion section. So that will help you reinvent the wheel and advance the project faster. So yeah, as I told, like how you can get the recognition is like, you can make your release your softwares, what professors for software and also document the work that you usually do in your projects you to share in the public. And get definitely in the end, you'll it will turn out getting credit credits for your project. So for further reading, definitely you should follow these links. I mentioned in the slides and for contact, you can contact me in the mail, as well as in the Twitter handle, thanks for listening my talk, hope you get something into some again, some insights into this talk. Thank you.