# Am new and very much interested in contributing to this community

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/am-new-and-very-much-interested-in-contributing-to-this-community/1859>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [January 2, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/am-new-and-very-much-interested-in-contributing-to-this-community/1859 "2020-01-02T17:57:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![kdaud](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/kdaud/32/624_2.png) [@kdaud](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/kdaud)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/am-new-and-very-much-interested-in-contributing-to-this-community/1859/1 "2020-01-02T17:57:43Z")

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Am a tech enthusiast passionate in open source development and would like to contribute to this amazing community. Any one to guide me how I can get started! Thanks

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**Author:** ![koppor](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/koppor/32/5_2.png) [@koppor](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/koppor)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 9:26am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/am-new-and-very-much-interested-in-contributing-to-this-community/1859/2 "2020-01-03T09:26:38Z")

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Welcome! Could you tell more about your learning aims? - We have [https://contribute.jabref.org](https://contribute.jabref.org). It has a subsection for programmers. Does this help to find something suitable?

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**Author:** ![kdaud](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/kdaud/32/624_2.png) [@kdaud](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/kdaud)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/am-new-and-very-much-interested-in-contributing-to-this-community/1859/3 "2020-01-03T10:06:09Z")

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Absolutely great resource.   
`Learning aim:` Have used several open source software while at college and got desire to give back to Open Source Communities. When browsed around this community took my attention about the amazing work done here and desire to contribute to the community

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/am-new-and-very-much-interested-in-contributing-to-this-community/1859/4 "2020-01-03T14:06:07Z")

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Thank you very much for your kind words!  
If you encounter any issues or have problems regarding code, feel free to ask on our gitter chat.

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**Author:** ![kdaud](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/kdaud/32/624_2.png) [@kdaud](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/kdaud)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/am-new-and-very-much-interested-in-contributing-to-this-community/1859/5 "2020-01-03T14:11:22Z")

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@Siedlerchr Have you had a look at this [Failing to connect to gitter chat through Github](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/failing-to-connect-to-gitter-chat-through-github/1864) post on talk