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I was thinking to note down my thoughts so that I can share my experience. So here it is, about how I joined 'dgplug' and get to know about Open-Source.

During my B.Tech 3rd semester somehow I got to know about the word 'Open-Source'. After a year when I was a fifth semester student, I met 'Ratnadeep(rtnpro)' in a tech-talk at my college,talk was over Open-Source , Its opportunities and freedom.Open Source culture was a myth in my college, very few people knew about Open-Source and its freedom of learning. In my batch, hardly fifty percent people know about Open-Source and Communities. During the talk 'Ratnadeep debnath(rtnpro)' mentioned about 'dgplug' summer training program and also told about 'Kushal das(kushal)' and other 'dgplug' operators, in those days I was learning python so after the talk a name was coming again and again in my mind that was 'Kushal das(kushal)', there were many questions and doubts were in my mind e.g. how to start, where to start then I decided to ping 'Ratnadeep debnath(rtnpro)' and he helped me a lot. I was a hindi background student till my 12th standard so I was a little bit shy to talk ans also I was a window user in those days then 'Ratnadeep debnath(rtnpro)' suggested me to shift over fedora, and also suggest to join IRC to get enrolled in 'dgplug' where masterminds like Kushal, Ratnadeep(rtnpro), Sayan, Chandan , Jasonbraganza were there. Summer training program had been started 15 days before i joined. 'Kushal das' suggested me to go through the logs, I did that. Kushal das(kushal) provided his book for python named 'Python you and me', book helped me a lot to understand python with a decent practice. https://pymbook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ I started digging more about Open-Source and i got my interests in it. At the beginning, after trying on my own, I lost hope because I was struggling to learn to contribute and thought that it's impossible ,I started staying on 'dgplug' after sessions and listened to people what they are taking and used to ask questions frequently whenever doubt appeared in my mind as time passed thing became easier, it's just start for me many thing to go. Jasonbraganza's sessions over reading and writing importance was amazing and encouraged me and many more to write, I am very much thankful to him for his kind help. That's how it all started for me.