Let’s make the face of GDG Chennai better.

Karthik Kamalakannan
GDG Chennai
Published in
2 min readJun 3, 2016

At GDG Chennai, we think sharing knowledge is the best way to learn anything new. To stay true to this value, we’ve open sourced GDG Chennai’s website on Github, because we want you to be a part of it.

We want to make GDG Chennai’s website known for its quality among all the other communities across the world. To do this, we want you to contribute to this project.

So, what do I get?

  • Gain programming experience
  • Learn how to work together on large projects
  • Get your code reviewed by professionals
  • Learn Source Control

If you are unaware of GitHub, the following sources might be helpful,

How can I contribute?

  • Directly commit code
  • Test and raise bugs to GitHub’s issue tracker
  • Review/Update current Website content (Text content, images taken at events, or write personal reviews of the events)

How do I contribute code?

  • Create a GitHub account
  • Fork the codebase
  • Clone the repo and setup developer environment (More info on the Readme)
  • Raise PRs! (Pull Requests)

What’s it built on?

The website is built on Jekyll, a lightweight Ruby based page generator. You can comment down below if you need any help setting up the developer environment.

GitHub Repo - https://goo.gl/NX8B0vGDG Chennai Website - http://gdgchennai.com/

This post first appeared on GDG Chennai on Allt.in. Thanks to Swaathi Kakarla for contributing to this post.

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Karthik Kamalakannan
GDG Chennai

Co-founder & CEO of @SkcriptHQ. Building Hellonext.co. I write about building a bootstrapped SaaS business.