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How to make your first steps in Open Source contributing

• pryelluw 9y ago
  Semi-related: I wrote this post [0] to try and motivate people to contribute. [0] https://dev.to/yelluw/things-you-can-do-to-contribute-to-open-source https://dev.to/yelluw/things-you-can-do-to-contribute-to-ope...
• zufallsheld 9y ago
  OT: The icons and banners that constantly hover around the text make it really hard to concentrate on it. Thank god for Firefox' reader mode.
  • msla 9y ago
    Yeah, this is just unreadably ugly.
• SKYRHO_ 9y ago
  Exactly what I needed, thanks Katerina Sand
• j_s 9y ago
  http://www.firsttimersonly.com/ http://www.firsttimersonly.com/ by Scott Hanselman + Kent Dodds is an iteration on Scott's http://up-for-grabs.net/ http://up-for-grabs.net/ Scott also did a walkthrough several years ago: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GetInvolvedInOpenSourceTodayHowToContributeAPatchToAGitHubHostedOpenSourceProjectLikeCode52.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GetInvolvedInOpenSourceTodayHo... https://www.hanselman.com/blog/BringKindnessBackToOpenSource.aspx https://www.hanselman.com/blog/BringKindnessBackToOpenSource... is targeted more at maintainers. There are a great number of additional resources and discussion on those blog posts. If video is your jam, check out Scott's presentation "Getting Started in Open Source": https://youtu.be/nmiftiGktsU https://youtu.be/nmiftiGktsU
• spaced0g 9y ago
  >How to make your first steps in Open Source contributing Giving advise on how to contribute to open source while having never contributed. The irony...