Resources to Help you get started with Hacktoberfest

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If you're a developer, you've probably come across the term "open source." If you've ever wondered what it's all about and how to contribute, you are in exactly the right place. By the end you would have understood what it means, gotten resources to help you get started and finally made your first contribution.

Now, if you're a new developer you are probably wondering what exactly is open source? How can you get started? What should you expect? Well, in this article we will cover all this and more.

What is Open-Source

Open source refers to source code that is made available to the public to view, use, modify, and distribute under a permissive license.

It's often in a company's or person's best interest to open-source their code, whether they're an individual, a corporation, a small business, a non-profit, or a government agency.

You do not need to know how to code in order to get started, OS contribution is in different forms like:

How to Contribute to Open Source

You can add a description to a project's documentation to elaborate on a certain point
You can give guidance on a specific project
You can add examples to show how the code works
You can write tutorials for the project
You can add a translation for a project
You can answer questions about a project (like on Stack Overflow or Reddit)
You can offer to mentor another contributor
You can fix typos and arrange the project's work folder correctly