SODA Foundation Starter Guides and Links #24

skdwriting · 2022-10-19T12:01:30Z

skdwriting
Oct 19, 2022
Maintainer

Dear All,
In this thread:

You can find the introduction to SODA Foundation
SODA Community Channels
SODA Projects
How to Start your contribution
and more
You can also add useful information under the comments from time to time. It will help the community!

Where can I find the SODA Foundation introduction and various activities by SODA Foundation?
Visit SODA Foundation website

How to join as a SODA Foundation Member (Organizations and Institutions)
Visit Member Joining Page

I am in individual. I want to contribute. How to join SODA Community? (Contribution can be code, test, doc and other areas like ecosystem, community building, mentoring, building open source awareness, and more!
Join SODA Slack
After joining the SODA Slack, join to the channel named #new-contributors

Where can I find SODA Projects Source Code?
Github for SODA Foundation Projects
Github for SODA Crystal - The Metadata Engine
Github for SODA Container Data Management Projects
Github for SODA Lake Projects
Major projects and source code links:
Delfin : Heterogeneous Storage Monitoring Project
Strato: Multicloud Data Management Project
Kahu: Container Data Protection Project
Como: Virtual Data Lake Project

Where can I find the SODA Foundation Project Documentation?
Two ways you can get access to the project documentation
a) Visit the respective source code link of the project (as mentioned above)
b) Visit the SODA Foundation Documentation Page

What are the other channels through which I can connect to SODA Community?
SODA LinkedIn Page
SODA Twitter
SODA India Meetup

Which are the regular meetings I can join to learn and contribute more?
SODA Global Community Meeting
SODA Design Meeting

How to start contributing?
a) Join SODA Slack and say "I want to contribute" in #general channel or #new-contributors channel
b) Go to specific project github and open the Issues tab. There will be different open issues, You can add a comment and say you plan to contribute. The maintainers will reply / assign that issue to you.

How to connect with maintainers and other developers?
a) Join SODA Slack and start chatting. You can find different project channels. Respective maintainers will be part of those channels
b) You can add comments to github issues of respective projects. Maintainers will check these regularly and reply to you
c) Join SODA Global Community Meeting OR SODA Design Meeting

Where can I find SODA Foundation Project Releases?
SODA Releases

What is needed for the development or testing of SODA Projects?

Laptop with Ubuntu (18.04LTS / 20.04LTS) [Please check the project environment for latest changes]
Check the project languages - you need an editor for code changes (like vscode) [Currently most of the projects are in go, python, js, ansible etc]. You can get this information from the project source code link (check the above sections to reach the project source code)
Internet connection

Do you have more questions?!
Ask in Join SODA Slack or add under this discussion thread.

Please check the comments section of this discussion thread. I will be adding more tips and info there! :)
Enjoy open source with SODA Foundation Projects!

anvithks · 2022-10-19T12:09:57Z

anvithks
Oct 19, 2022

This is very helpful @skdwriting.

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skdwriting · 2022-10-20T12:17:34Z

skdwriting
Oct 20, 2022
Maintainer Author

General Tips and Information : Github

Github Documentation is a very good place for learning github. Issue creation, project management, raising PR, and more. You can go to this link and search the keywords to find the information or traverse through the menu!

Basics of GitHub: covering: how to create account, basic operation of creating the repo, branch etc with github. Read the basic github operation here

How to contribute to projects using github?
Read the steps to contribute to a project using github here