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How to find Open Source projects to contribute

Isabel Costa on June 11, 2022

I often get asked about how to find Open Source projects to contribute to. In this post, I’ll show you where you can find these projects. You can u...
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Makar Murashov

Great article, just in the right time for me, thanks 👍

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Maciej Budzyński

Great article. By adding the Github Issue tool, it is a very simple, but quite powerful tool for finding projects with recent problems for which we can create pull requests.

Example of aggregation for Python projects:
github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+lang...

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Avi Amsalem

Great one, and i think more and more contribution will give developers the ability to get jobs/projects based on their real activities as contributors.
this is waht we are trying to leverage @CodeSpread.

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Matej Nemček 孔子

Amazing article for first time contributors. We are offering people rewards on top for contributions once they're pull request is merged in github.com/kodadot/nft-gallery

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Shivali Pandey

I have had a hard time too

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artyomovs

Good advices. Thank you!

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Schalk Neethling

Great article, thanks for writing this!

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The Coding Mermaid 🧜‍♀️

Awesome article as usual Isabel! Thanks for this and more🚀💖

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Andrew Baisden

Good job with the article so much useful info.

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Éowyn Peterson

This subject has been very daunting for me, and this post was extremely and encouraging; thank you!!

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Isabel Costa

So glad to read that. That is what I was aiming for!

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Calebdgodson

Good article

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Yvett Jimenez

Great advice, thank you so much! This is very helpful for the current point in my journey.

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Abel Emmanuel

Thanks for sharing this insightful post. This will guide me on my journey of open source contributions, I have been longing to contribute to open source however procrastination has held me back this while. Thanks Isabel.