added 2025-02-20 session

Author: sujee

README.md

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 (latest first)
 - **2025-Mar-06:** [Introducing GneissWeb -  a state-of-the-art LLM pre-training dataset](events/2025-03-06__gneissweb.md)
 - **2025-Feb-27:** [Review of data preparation tools and Q&A](events/2025-02-27__data-prep-review.md)
-- **2025-Feb-20:** How to contribute to an open source project
++ **2025-Feb-20:** [How to contribute to an open source project](events/2025-02-20__contributing-open-source.md)
 - **2025-Feb-13:** [Open source RAG pipeline using Data Prep Kit + Milvus + Granite](events/2025-02-13__RAG-dataprepkit-milvus-granite.md)
 - **2025-Feb-06:** [Data preparation using Data Prep Kit](events/2025-02-06__data-prep-kit.md)
 - **2025-Jan-30:** [Data processing using Docling](events/2025-01-30__docling.md)

events/2025-02-20__contributing-open-source.md

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+# Making Your First Commit To Open Source: A Casual Conversation (2025-Feb-20)
+
+<!-- ## 🔗 [#](#) -->
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+<!-- <img src="../assets/qrcode_2025-02-27__data-prep-review.png" width="400px"> -->
+
+## Event Details
+
+[Event information](https://www.meetup.com/ibm-developer-sf-bay-area-meetup/events/306138286){:target="_blank" rel="noopener"}<br>
+🗓️: **Thursday Feb 20, 2025** <br>
+⏰: **9 am PST  / 11 am CST / 12 pm EST / 5pm GMT**<br>
+Duration: **1 hour**
+
+**[Event recording is available](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQkxoic7sLI){:target="_blank" rel="noopener"}**
+
+**[Check resources](#resources)** - code, presentation slides ..etc
+
+**[Q & A section](#q--a)**
+
+---
+
+## Agenda
+
+- Welcome
+- Quick intro about AI Alliance (3 min)
+- Presentation: Making Your First Commit To Open Source (40 mins)
+- Q&A (10 mins)
+- Wrap-up
+
+## Session: Making Your First Commit To Open Source
+
+### Description
+
+This session will follow more of a Q&A format. More details to be shared soon! Learn about:
+
+- Why choosing the project is important
+- Types of OSS communities
+- What project leads care about
+- Roadmap to getting involved with OSS projects
+- Live demo
+
+
+
+**Session Type:**  
+Open Q&A session
+
+**Audience**:  
+software developers
+
+**Technical Level**:  
+Beginner - Intermediate
+
+**Prerequisites**:  
+None
+
+### Resources
+
+
+📺 **Presentation**: [coming soon](#){:target="_blank" rel="noopener"}
+
+
+💻 **Code**
+
+https://github.com/The-AI-Alliance/gofannon
+
+
+## Speaker: Trevor Grant
+
+Trevor Grant (IBM Research) is getting back into speaking after a hiatus from an otherwise prolific career that was put on pause during the pandemic. During his pause he became a father, published a book (Kubeflow for Machine Learning: From Lab to Production), had a second son, consulted for a while, went back to work for IBM Research, and became car free (this list is not ordered chronologically nor by significance). He has been putzing around generative AI since ~2017, and someday hopes to give a talk on his Star Trek Chat bots of 2018-2020. His primary open source interest at the moment is the qumat project of Apache Mahout and the gofannon project of the AI Alliance.
+
+---
+
+## Q & A
+
+Please review the session recording