# New to community

**URL:** <https://community.cesium.com/t/new-to-community/917>\
**Category:** CesiumJS\
**Created:** [January 9, 2014, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/new-to-community/917 "2014-01-09T14:08:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![thewayofknowing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@thewayofknowing](https://community.cesium.com/u/thewayofknowing)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/new-to-community/917/1 "2014-01-09T14:08:10Z")

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Hello,

I'm new to Cesium and would like to contribute. At the moment, I don't have a particular area in mind but I'm excited to work in various interesting topics. So how should I start?

I'm also looking up to GSOC 2014 and perhaps do a project. Where should I get the latest news regarding it like the list of projects, mentors etc.?

Regards,

Kartik Kohli

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**Author:** ![Matt\_Amato](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/cesium/user_avatar/community.cesium.com/matt_amato/32/1993_2.png) [@Matt\_Amato](https://community.cesium.com/u/Matt_Amato)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.cesium.com/t/new-to-community/917/2 "2014-01-09T15:06:03Z")

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Hi Kartik,

We are definitely always looking for people willing to help out. We have a “beginners” label in our list of GitHub issues specifically designed for developers who want to work on Cesium but are just starting out. Here’s a direct link to a filtered list of them:

[https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/issues?labels=beginner&page=1&state=open](https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/issues?labels=beginner&page=1&state=open)

You can pick any one of them and start hacking away, but it’s probably a good idea to post a comment on the issue indicating that you are working on it, along with any questions you might have.

We also have a Contributor Guide on our wiki for helping configure your development environement: [https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/wiki/Contributor%27s-Guide](https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/wiki/Contributor%27s-Guide)

The most important thing you’ll need to do is sign and email us the Contributors license agreement (CLA). You can find that information here: [https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) For some reason the CLA links are broken but I’m looking into that now. We can’t take any code from you with a CLA on file.

Finally, while the page may be a little out of day, our GSOC ideas page is here: [https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-Ideas](https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-Ideas) Of course students can also suggest their own ideas as well.

Hope that helps,

Matt