Are you new to the open source community? or do you already have experience and you would like to help other to start? then this talk is for you!

Some examples of ideal projects to start contributing to, both inside and outside openSUSE, will be presented in the talk, as well as the steps to do so. In this line, I will also speak about mentoring programs, focusing on GSoC (Google Summer of Code), in which openSUSE participates and in which I personally have participated as a student last year and also as a mentor this year. I will explain what this program is about and why it is important for openSUSE. I will show projects from last years and for everybody interested in participating I will cover who can apply and how to do so. And for those with more experience, I will also talk about how to become a mentor for openSUSE.