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authorEkaitz Zárraga <ekaitz.zarraga@protonmail.com>2019-03-29 13:59:38 +0100
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-Title: My first time
-Date: 2018-06-23
-Category:
-Tags:
-Slug: First-Time
-Lang: en
-Summary: Thoughts about my first contribution to free software
-
-The other day I remembered a very important day on my life, one of those early
-beginnings that started to change my mind: **The first time I contributed to
-free software**.
-
-My first contribution was in 2014, more specifically the 22nd of May of 2014.
-
-That's only 4 years ago. But, at the same time, they already passed 4 years
-since then? OMG.
-
-You get the feeling, right?
-
-You may think I started coding when I was 10 or something like that. I didn't.
-I learned programming in the university and not as well as a Computer Scientist
-because I studied Telecommunication Engineering and computers are just a third
-of the studies while the other two parts are electronics and signals related
-things.
-
-I'm not a young hacker or a genius. My parents don't like computers. I didn't
-live with a computer at home since I was a toddler. That didn't happen.
-
-Today I want to tell you my story. Not because it's awesome and you'll love it.
-I want to tell you my story because it's **really** standard. I want you to see
-that you can also contribute to Free Software. Anyone can.
-
-So, how did it all start?
-
-I started my university studies in 2009. The first year we had one semester of
-C and the next one of C++. Not real programming classes, just introductory
-stuff for the languages and computers. A couple of years later we had a
-networking subject where I used Linux for the first time. The computers had
-*Kubuntu* installed. At that time my laptop started to give me some trouble and
-I installed *Kubuntu* in a dual boot and tested it. It was nice.
-
-Few time later the *Windows* partition failed again and I was comfortable
-enough in *Kubuntu* to delete it and use only *Kubuntu*. It was easy.
-
-The second semester that year another subject had some focus on Linux because
-it was a networks and tools subject and I really needed it. We learned to use a
-terminal, some SQL and many things like that. Simple tools but they resulted to
-be useful in the future. I was really surprised by the power of the terminal
-and I studied a lot in my free time I finished the subject with honours just
-because I was really interested on it. As I said, I'm not a genius, I was
-interested.
-
-We had a subject about *Minix*, following Andrew Tannenbaum's *Operating
-Systems: Desing and Implementation* book and *Minix* version 1, which gave us
-the initial needed knowledge about Operating Systems at that time. That started
-to give me some info about the ethical part of the free software and also
-sparked more interest.
-
-Next year I had a couple of Operating Systems subjects (the theoretical one and
-the practical one). The teacher was part of *KDE Spain*, and he talked about
-free software in class. I was quite into it at that time. The practical part of
-the subject was real software, we covered the contents of the book called
-*Advanced Linux programming*[^1]. That was pure C development and we didn't
-have a lot of knowledge on that. We just touched some C/C++ during the first
-year and some assembly in a couple of subjects. It was really hard, but it was
-really cool.
-
-We made a small shell. It was great!
-
-Final year[^2] of the university: I had to make the final project.
-
-I didn't know what to do so I contacted the teacher who was part of *KDE Spain*
-and he mentored me. I installed a IRC client and started talking with the
-people at *kde-telepathy* project. I wasn't used to that kind of collaborative
-development. Heck, I wasn't used at any kind of development! But it was all
-good, mostly thanks to the great people in the project (David, Diane, George,
-Martin... *You* are awesome!).
-
-The project itself was a *KDE* application, *KDE-Telepathy*, a big one. Thanks
-to heaven, my part of the project was quite separated so I could focus on my
-piece. That taught me to search in a big codebase and focus on my part. Then I
-had to code in C++ like in the real life, not like designed problems I've
-worked on at the university, and I also had to read tons of documentation about
-*Qt*, *KDE* and anything else.
-
-I started with the contribution that opened this post and I went on until I
-renewed the whole interface. It wasn't great, but the code was finally merged
-in the application some time later.
-
-Since then I could say I code almost everyday and I've been studying many
-languages more but, at that time, I was relatively new to programming and
-computers.
-
-With all this I mean:
-
-> If you are interested, try. Everything is going to be fine. You don't need to
-> be a genius[^3].
-
-[You can check the contribution
-here](https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118256/diff/2#index_header).
-
-Love.
-
-Ekaitz
-
-[^1]: It's a great book, by the way. You can find it
- [online](https://mentorembedded.github.io/advancedlinuxprogramming/).
-
-[^2]: When I studied, right before the [Bolognia
- Process](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_Process), the university was 5
- years long for a Masters Degree and 3 for a Bachelor Degree.
-
-[^3]: But congratulations if you are, that way you'll learn faster and probably
- have more reach if you want to.