Introduction

The Palisadoes Foundation is sponsoring the Calico Challenge. This page is your entry point to the program.

This web pages has:

• An introduction to our projects
• Onboarding videos
• Extensive links to GSoC, Palisadoes Foundation and online project resources

About Palisadoes

The Palisadoes Foundation has been sponsoring work on this open-source project for a number of years. Our most popular project is Talawa, a modular open source project to help community-based organizations such as clubs, neighborhood groups, volunteer associations, non-profits and open source projects manage their daily activities. Most user interaction is via a mobile app.

Review our project websites for more information.

YouTube Introduction

We have a lot of videos on our YouTube channel. Our "Getting Started - Developers" playlist will help you understand our processes better.

• It's very important to watch all the playlist videos
• Click on the image to start watching

Project Ideas and More

This section outlines all you need to know about getting involved with the Palisadoes Foundation's Calico program:

1. Learn about Calico. This page will have information about:
   1. Eligibility
   2. Timelines
2. Review our project websites.
3. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel.
4. Get familiar with important Calico documentation on this site:
   1. Review our Ideas List: The Palisadoes Foundation's Calico Ideas List.
   2. Read our Calico application guide.
   3. Get familiar with our selection criteria.
   4. Consider using our application template for your submission.
   5. Get informed about our Conflict of Interest policy
5. Read our GitHub Quick-Start Guide: It will you to prepare for your first code contribution.
6. Research the GitHub issue trackers for all the projects
7. Introduce yourself on our #general slack channel. You can join our Slack Channel using the link on the Palisadoes Foundation GitHub Home Page.
8. If you do not see any interesting projects from the proposed ideas or issues, we encourage you to contact the Palisadoes Foundation’s mailing list and propose a new idea. The Palisadoes Foundation does not encourage and will not respond to your personal new open source project ideas which are unrelated to any Palisadoes projects.
   1. You can subscribe to our list at https://www.freelists.org/list/palisadoes.
   2. You can send queries to:
9. The Ideas list is manually updated, please contact our mentors if the page is not being updated.
10. Mentors can be contacted on our #internshp-proposals slack channel or at:
11. Add an avatar to your GitHub profile. It will make it easier to associate your proposal to your work.

Good luck!