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# My FOSS Overflow 2025–26 Experience

**By Gm Aravind**

## Introduction

I participated in the FOSS Overflow 2025–26 program, where I got the opportunity to contribute to a real-world open-source project. In this blog I will share my experience,contributions and what I learned during the program.
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I participated in the FOSS Overflow 2025–26 program, where I got the opportunity to contribute to a real-world open-source project. In this blog I will share my experience,contributions and what I learned during the program.
I participated in the FOSS Overflow 2025–26 program, where I got the opportunity to contribute to a real-world open-source project. In this blog, I will share my experience, contributions, and what I learned during the program.
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## About FOSS Overflow

FOSS Overflow is a mentorship program that helps students learn open-source development by working on real projects with guidance from mentors. It provides a great environment to learn, build and collaborate to a meaningfull oss project.
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FOSS Overflow is a mentorship program that helps students learn open-source development by working on real projects with guidance from mentors. It provides a great environment to learn, build and collaborate to a meaningfull oss project.
FOSS Overflow is a mentorship program that helps students learn open-source development by working on real projects with guidance from mentors. It provides a great environment to learn, build, and collaborate on meaningful OSS projects.
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## My Project

I worked on the **Student Database COSA** project. This project is used to manage student-related activities such as bookings, budgets and administrative tasks.

The goal of the project is to make student management more organized and efficient.

## My Contributions

During the program, I worked on both frontend and backend features.

Some of my major contributions include:

* Implementing a **Budget Management System** with backend APIs and a dashboard UI for tracking transactions
* Building a **Smart Room Booking System** where users can create bookings, check availability, and manage booking status
* Developing **booking clash detection** to prevent conflicts in room reservations
* Adding **role-based access control** and approval workflows
* Migrating the frontend from **Create React App (CRA) to Vite**, which improved performance and build speed.

Some of my key pull requests:

* PR #240 – Budget Management System
* PR #235 – Smart Room Booking Frontend
* PR #233 – Backend for Booking & Clash Detection
* PR #221 – CRA to Vite Migration

## Challenges Faced

At the beginning, I faced several challenges like in:
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* Understanding the existing codebase.
* Designing scalable backend systems.
* Handling edge cases in booking conflicts.
* Connecting frontend and backend properly.
* Migrating the project from CRA to Vite.
* Fixing PR review comments by code rabbit and improving code quality

With the help of my mentor Harshita, I was able to overcome these challenges.

## Learnings

This program helped me improve many skills:

* Full-stack development (React + Node.js)
* Writing clean and structured code
* Debugging and solving real-world problems
* Working with Git and GitHub (PRs, reviews, CI)
* Understanding how large projects are built and maintained

I also learned how to collaborate with others in an open-source environment.

## Conclusion

Overall, My FOSS Overflow 2026 was a very valuable experience for me. It helped me gain confidence in contributing to open source and improved my development skills.
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-Overall, My FOSS Overflow 2026 was a very valuable experience for me. It helped me gain confidence in contributing to open source and improved my development skills.
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Overall, My FOSS Overflow 2026 was a very valuable experience for me. It helped me gain confidence in contributing to open source and improved my development skills.
Overall, my FOSS Overflow 2025–26 experience was very valuable for me. It helped me gain confidence in contributing to open source and improved my development skills.
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I would like to thank my mentor Harshita Patidar for her guidance and support throughout the program.
This journey motivated and challenged me to continue learning and contributing to open source and keep improving as a developer.