Name: Demystifying open source contributions: a practical guide for beginners
Start: 2025-11-15T10:30:00+05:30
End: 2025-11-15T12:00:00+05:30
Location: CIE at IIIT Hyderabad

**About the Talk**

This session is your gateway into the world of open source. We'll explore what open source truly means, why it matters, and how anyone—no matter their experience level—can become part of this global developer movement. From discovering beginner-friendly issues to creating your first pull request, you'll learn every step in a hands-on, approachable way. To top it off, a live coding demo will show the entire process in action, inspiring you to take that first confident step toward contributing to open source yourself.

In Sahaj Software's upcoming DevDay, **Rajani Karuturi** will show the entire process in action, inspiring you to take that first confident step toward contributing to open source yourself.

**You’ll explore:** Fundamentals of open source software and the essential steps to contribution

**What You’ll Learn**

* Identifying suitable issues
* Forking projects
* Setting up repositories on GitHub
* branching for new features
* Submitting pull requests for review
* Using AI Code assist tools in the process

**Who Should Attend**
College students (CS/IT), Early-career developers & interns, Self-learning programmers, Personal project builders, Open-source beginners and Developers switching tech stacks

NOTE: Please try to bring your laptop to the session so you can follow along and try things hands-on.

**Speaker**
[👩🏻💼 Rajani Karuturi:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/inajar/)
Rajani has spent over 15 years as a software professional, working with two startups and companies like Citrix and JPMC. She is currently a Solution Consultant at Sahaj. Throughout her career, she has contributed to various products, including a Facebook app that scaled to millions of users, an IAAS platform for setting up private clouds that many major Telecom providers use, and a data pipeline capable of processing 10TB of data daily.
She is passionate about open source and is a [committer and member of the Project Management Committee (PMC)](https://cloudstack.apache.org/who/) at Apache CloudStack. She is currently working with a major car manufacturer building their production management system.

**Registration Link:** Please confirm your attendance by registering [here](https://sahaj.ai/events/demystifying-open-source-contributions-a-practical-guide-for-beginners/):

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