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Discussion on: Winning my First Hacktoberfest!

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Anil Seervi

Yeah sure and thank you.

If you're a beginner, Firstly I suggest you to search for issues labeled good-first-issues , though most of them seem to be taken or assigned to others, it'd be nice if you take a look at how you can take your first step towards claiming your first issue to contribute.

There's no hurry to start big, your contribution can be small as a typo at this moment. You can find many of these on documentational type repos. I recommend you to make 1 or 2 these kind of PRs and not overwhelm maintainers with more as they have many other big things to deal with.

After that, when you've made your first contribution this way, you can search for issues on the repo of the languages and frameworks that you are familiar with. If you are not fully sure of what to do, you can always ask the maintainers on what further steps are needed to be taken ; considering you already know a portion of the solution or even completely.
Always interact with the maintainers as it'll give you more insight :)

Then you'll get the hang of it and probably will also start creating some big issues and solutions.

I hope this you and the beginners to Open-Source.