How to get started with open source...

[eddiejaoude]

Steps

1. pick a project / technology - I recommend looking at your friends or community projects or ones you use already
2. look at issues and discussions
3. either pick an existing issue or raise some issues for ideas / suggestions / questions / improvements
4. after discussing in the discussions, move to issues, then fork, make changes, raise PR

Resources

• Open Source book (a bit out of date, but still useful) https://github.com/eddiejaoude/book-open-source-tips
• Add your name to the list in the README file to practice the workflow http://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/hacktoberfest-practice
• Create a json file for your LinkFree profile (open source LinkTree alternative) https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree

Then start making improvements to the projects, remember it is not just about code, check the documentation, automated tests, can you help on the issues

[EmmaDawsonDev]

I see a lot of people coming to the discord and asking about projects in specific languages. I know there's always documentation and things people can do but I think it would be great if we could curate a list of open source projects that regularly have beginner-friendly issues for different languages so we have somewhere to point people looking for things like python or java etc.

[eddiejaoude]

Great idea 👍 I think this could be done in a couple ways

1. use threads in this discussion, each for a different tech
2. markdown file on the support repo
   ... other ideas welcome

[PetraAG]

Hello everyone,i followed the link from discord. Is the conversation still open? Good morning

[eddiejaoude]

I think this conversation is always open, so we can continually improve it