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Darrell Washington on July 31, 2017

Hey, guys! I want to get a group of developers together and form an "OpenSource" team. I have a few GitHub projects I want to refactor and improve....
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Andy Zhao (he/him)

@jess wrote a great article on finding open source projects to work on: dev.to/jess/open-source-resources-...

Also, our tag #opensource has a lot of great articles there!

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Darrell Washington

Thanks for the info I'll check it out!

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Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers

I'm not sure it makes sense to form an "open source" team this way. Usually, communities are formed around specific projects. You'll have more success if you promote individual projects on dev.to and other places, possibly emphasizing that you'd love to accept contributions.

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Darrell Washington

Oh ok thanks for the tip. So next time I should post my project and ask for help?

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Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers

Yes, I think that gets you more responses.

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Johannes Zillmann

Hey Darrel, are certain areas you would like to collaborate, like which kind of app you are interested in ?

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Darrell Washington

A JavaScript based app and sorry for the delay.