Hello Everyone,
My name is Saarthak Maini. I have been contributing to Open Source and Learning In Public for about 2 years. I would like to start contributing to Django. I would also like to participate in the upcoming Google Summer Of Code Program and other related events.
As stated, in the pinned post, I have
- Gone through the Tutorials
- Set up Django on my Local System and Played around with the Unit Tests
- Read the “Advice for New Contributors Guide”
I’m currently going through the tickets and other documentation to get involved.
I would like to request suggestion of any issue which I could get started with and contribute to ? Any other steps which I could take to get involved?
I am good with Python, SQL , HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Decent with Django. Willing to put in the hardwork and learn on the go.
Also, are there any community meetings which I could join ?
Thank you! 
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A helpful thing you could start with is reproducing errors and checking for ticket statuses. You can find more information on triaging activities here: Triaging tickets | Django documentation | Django
I’m not aware of dedicated meetings for contributors, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t interest. If you’d like to set up a recurring block of time on the Django discord server for others to join you in contributing, I can help with that.
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I think an excellent way is to find tickets that has “needs documentation” , “patch needs improvement” set in the trac and then further filter it on the area of Django you want to contribute or feel comfortable with.
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Thank you very much for the amazing response Tim and Tushar.
My apologies for the late reply.
I followed the advice, and I’m happy to inform that I’m getting more and more comfortable with the codebase.
Definitely, I would love to interact with contributors and members of the community.
Wednesday or Thursday, 1 hour between 7 PM to 9 PM IST is what I’m comfortable with , for the potential weekly community meetings
Thank you !