Project Jupyter was born out of the IPython Project in 2014 as it evolved to support interactive data science and scientific computing across all programming languages.
Started with a introduction by Katy Huff to figure out the technicalities of submitting a pull request to the actual copy.(arfc/hipython#2).
Subsequently, I tried my hands on the jupyter project. I identified a beginner friendly issue with Jupyter notebook (http://jupyter.org/) which I could start with. It involved reading several issues and the codebase to identify the problem and making the necessary changes.
The issue was a bugfix in nb and server extensions where server extensions were not loaded when installed to different locations. (jupyter/notebook#2063) The solution was solved by modifiying to load with Config Manager so that the merge happens recursively by minrk (jupyter/notebook#2108). I updated the changelog to reflect these changes. The pull request (jupyter/notebook#2226) has been merged into upstream and closed an issue.
I attempted to work on Jupyterhub but met with difficulty in setting up the contributing source and raised an issue (jupyterhub/jupyterhub#1001). Currently in the process and fixing the set-up bug and hoping to update the README to reflect the errors encounted. However, the short span of 1 weekend as not sufficient to finish the project. When solved, I will close the issue and update the documentations to help with such installations. Further hope to work on creating a wikipage as per the issue raised here (jupyterhub/jupyterhub#999).
I worked alone but could not have done it without the help of the python dev mentors at hackillinois 2017. Shoutout to @willingc. This was also not possible without the planning team of hackillinois 2017 that provided the environment for getting started with open source.