# Beginner at Processing Foundation
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/beginner-at-processing-foundation/35694
**Category:** Summer of Code
**Created:** [March 12, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/beginner-at-processing-foundation/35694 "2022-03-12T07:53:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@64687](https://discourse.processing.org/u/64687)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/beginner-at-processing-foundation/35694/1 "2022-03-12T07:53:43Z")
Hello to everyone here.
Please am new here at processing foundation and I would really appreciate it if someone could enlighten me more on how projects are being handled here, what is expected of me and how am to go about things here. Thank you…
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### Author:  [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2022, 11:34am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/beginner-at-processing-foundation/35694/2 "2022-03-12T11:34:10Z")
Hello,
Welcome!
> **[Welcome to Processing!](https://processing.org/)**
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> Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual arts…
Some Processing Foundation Forum topics to get you started:
- [Processing FAQ - Frequently asked questions](https://discourse.processing.org/faq)
- [p5.js Community Statement](https://p5js.org/community/)
- [Guidelines - Asking Questions](https://discourse.processing.org/t/guidelines-asking-questions/2147)
- [Guidelines - Answering Questions](https://discourse.processing.org/t/guidelines-answering-questions/2145)
`:)`
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/beginner-at-processing-foundation/35694/3 "2022-03-12T16:27:24Z")
hey, and welcome to the forum!
Not sure what you mean.
- This is a programming language site. You can download an IDE and start programming there. Or program online. You can draw circles o or spheres. You can share your Sketches here in the forum.
- You can contribute, either by tools or library or to the core of the programming language
- Or are you referring to GSOC?
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### Author:  [@64687](https://discourse.processing.org/u/64687)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/beginner-at-processing-foundation/35694/4 "2022-03-12T18:08:36Z")
Yes I was referring to GSOC sorry I wasn’t very precise
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### Author:  [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/beginner-at-processing-foundation/35694/5 "2022-03-12T18:17:41Z")
There is a Summer of Code category:
> [@Processing Foundation participating in GSoC 2022](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-foundation-participating-in-gsoc-2022/35617):
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> Hi folks, Excited to share that PF will be participating as a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code 2022, a program to bring in new contributors to open source development - [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/). It will be our 11th year in the program. The program is now open to all new to open source development over than 18 and allows for different sized projects, and a later final deadline. Applications open on April 4. Here is the full timeline - [Google Summer of Code 2022 Timeline |…](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline)
`:)`
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### Author:  [@Altaf434](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Altaf434)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2024, 7:38pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/beginner-at-processing-foundation/35694/6 "2024-01-28T19:38:12Z")
hello everyone , i am new to processing foundation i would love to contribute and learn much more…
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/beginner-at-processing-foundation/35694/7 "2024-01-28T20:42:12Z")
> [@【Help post】for an open source beginner](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-post-for-an-open-source-beginner/38653/5):
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> much appreciated ！:smiling\_face\_with\_three\_hearts: star_struck