Hi, I am Abhishek Tiwari, an engineering guy👨‍💻 from India. Everyone has its own journey and yes I have mine, I started open-source contribution in October 2022, ya you are right! with HactoberFest ( for that cool t-shirt 👕), and meanwhile also HackSquad hackathon with my team we merged around 100+ PRs!!.
And this is the start of journey, after that I contributed to Mozilla Firefox ( 22+ PRs and even 2 Bugs!😎 ) and some other well known projects. During this I came to know about GSoC, GSoD, SoB and so many other programs. But I coosen GSoC.

Thinking Why? Let's Discuss

What is GSoC

GSoC is an annual program by Google that requires you to dedicate your complete summer to work on a coding project ( Non - Coding projects are also there )under an organisation. At that time, the most exciting thing about GSoC for me was getting a stipend (but the real treasure is the work experience)

Know more about stipend [here](/)
For India it is 3000$ for large project and 1500$ for small and medium

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