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Find a project you are passionate about, fix the code, send a patch. Its 'that' easy. Many mature software projects have some bugs marked as 'Junior Jobs'. The

Find a project you are passionate about, fix the code, send a patch. Its 'that' easy. Many mature software projects have some bugs marked as 'Junior Jobs'. They are issues which maintainers felt could be fixed by a newcomer. OpenHatch[0] is a website which helps you find such projects/issues easily. [0] https://openhatch.org/ https://openhatch.org/

BellsOnSunday 13y ago
In between steps 0 and 1, hang out on the mailing lists, IRC channels or wherever the devs talk to each other. You can get a feeling for the culture of the community, who the most active people are, the best people to ask newbie questions without getting flamed, and so on.
- naturalethic 13y ago
  Yup, freenode is a great place to get on the inside of any project.