# Regarding help in first contribution

**URL:** <https://community.jenkins.io/t/regarding-help-in-first-contribution/5115>\
**Category:** Contributing\
**Created:** [December 26, 2022, 6:53am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/regarding-help-in-first-contribution/5115 "2022-12-26T06:53:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lovakush](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/lovakush/32/3021_2.png) [@Lovakush](https://community.jenkins.io/u/Lovakush)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 6:53am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/regarding-help-in-first-contribution/5115/1 "2022-12-26T06:53:37Z")

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Hey, I am new here and really want to contribute to Jenkins can anyone help me to make my first contribution?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![MarkEWaite](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/markewaite/32/20_2.png) [@MarkEWaite](https://community.jenkins.io/u/MarkEWaite)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/regarding-help-in-first-contribution/5115/2 "2022-12-26T15:53:29Z")

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See the blog post from @Jmm that describes how to prepare for Google Summer of Code. It is a good introduction.

> **[GSoC 2023: how to get prepared](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2022/11/23/get-prepared-for-gsoc/)**
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> This blogpost advises on how to best prepare for submitting a successful proposal for the 2023 edition of Google Summer of Code with Jenkins.

See the tutorials mentioned in my post for ways to familiarize yourself with Jenkins.

> [@GSoC 2023: how to prepare for a successful application?](https://community.jenkins.io/t/gsoc-2023-how-to-prepare-for-a-successful-application/4689/2):
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> Tutorials that build functional knowledge of Jenkins There are several tutorials that introduce important concepts in Jenkins and are easy to run on Windows, Linux, and macOS. For Google Summer of Code candidates, I recommend: as the first tutorial they should complete. That tutorial will introduce them to Docker containers, Jenkins Pipeline, and Java compilation. Those are all skills that will help a Google Summer of Code candidate. Other tutorials to consider:

If you decide that you’d like to contribute by submitting improvements to a Jenkins plugin, I recommend that you use the [“Improve a plugin” tutorial](https://www.jenkins.io/doc/developer/tutorial-improve/) to contribute to the [version number plugin](https://github.com/jenkinsci/versionnumber-plugin).