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Open Source Resources for Beginners

Jess Lee on June 07, 2017

Getting into open source can be very intimidating, especially for junior developers. Here's a list of resources that seem to lower the barrier for ...
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Srinivasan Rajappa

I just made my first PR!!

After cowing and shying away from this, I made the first PR :)

Thanks again :)

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Jess Lee

YAY!!! Congratulations!

I encourage you to read New Contributors to Open Source, Please Blog more ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Roshan Jossey

Iโ€™m working on a project to help beginners get started on contributing open source projects.ย github.com/Roshanjossey/first-cont...
Itโ€™d be awesome if you could check it out and gimme feedback

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Fryann Martinez

very excited to start to being a part of this

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Ben Halpern

Great list ๐Ÿ‘Œ

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Andrew Stuntz

I wrote a quick page on my website that pulls the top 100 'first-timers-only' tags from github.

andrewstuntz.com/git_first_timers

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Tony Greeley

Thank you so much!

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Kingsley Leshey

I want to work on an open source project

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Belhassen Chelbi

I needed this, thanks โ™ฅ

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Johnson Ogwuru

Thanks

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Maria Ines Parnisari

I wrote this blog post about how I started contributing: miparnisariblog.wordpress.com/2017...

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Sammy Israwi

Amazing, I need to save this!

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Daniel Ron

Great post, thank you!!

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Yay list! Now I have reference for finding open sources projects to work on.