Having been accepted as a student contributor to the Ruby Science Foundation under Google Summer of Code 2017, I learnt a lot in the past 4 months. This blog post is an honest attempt in documenting my experience, and covering important points for the benefit of future GSoC aspirants, such as - finalizing on a proposal based on an organization / language / project, importance of continously contributing and drafting a good proposal.
Why did Bruce Wayne call himself Batman, or Barry Allen call himself the Flash? Nicknames and alter egos in general, have a wide variety of interesting origin stories. This post is an honest attempt to crowd-source, collect and document the information about how the GitHub handles described in this post, came into existence.
Kharagpur Winter of Code is a one-month long open-source contribution fest organised by Kharagpur Open Source Society. As a mentor of 7 projects, it felt great to guide newbies of different skill-sets in contributing to the projects. This post aims to document all the proceedings in different projects that happened during KWoC 2016.