Hi! I'm Shaheer — a final-year Computer Science student who landed Google Summer of Code (GSoC’22) in my first year of college... without any open-source contributions or prior knowledge of the project's tech stack.

Let me guess: You're interested in GSoC but you're thinking...

❌ "I've never contributed to open source."

❌ "I don't know the tools that the project I like uses!"

❌ "Can I really get selected on my first try?"

I've been there….

When I applied to GSoC:

• My Open source contributions were nil, didn’t even know what a Pull request was.
• The project used Elm functional programming language — I didn’t even know what functional programming languages were .
• I had zero mentor connections.

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Yet, I got accepted on my first attempt.

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How?

You will learn how I made it, my whole struggle, and the things I did and turned the odds in my favour!