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From Open Source Contributor to Google SoC at GitLab
How I got selected as Google Summer of Code Intern at GitLab?
Introduction
I am a Computer Science Engineering student based in India and have been doing open source development since past 2 years and contributed to projects under Mozilla, Internet Archive, Facebook, Rome. I have also worked with Mozilla Firefox team under Google Summer of Code 2020.
It all started when I was in second semester and decided to put my University projects on GitHub that incorporates git’s version control features.
When I was completely new to the magical world of Git, I just crammed the commands without understanding it!
How it started?
One day I decided to learn Ruby on Rails as many popular software application was built using it. I thought the best way to practice would be to contribute to open source projects while learning the language. So while i was randomly searching the project I stumbled upon GitLab. I was surprised to know that the code base…
