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🧭 Navigating the Open Source Landscape: ⭐Finding Your First Contribution

Nathan Tarbert on September 13, 2023

🕵️‍♂️ Embarking on your journey and learning how to contribute to open source is an exciting step towards honing your programming skills, collabora...

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Vinit Gupta • Sep 15 '23

Great tips @nathan_tarbert
How can I add multiple keywords in my search? Like NextJS NodeJs

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 15 '23 • Edited

@thevinitgupta, you bring up a good point that I should definitely insert into the article which is simple wrapping [nextjs], [node] in brackets, and then you can expand your search.

BTW, this also works in places like Stackoverflow, etc...

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 15 '23

Vinit Gupta • Sep 15 '23

This is really useful
Thanks a lot

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 15 '23

Glad to hear it.
You're welcome!

Nevo David • Sep 13 '23

Great article Nathan!

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 13 '23

Thank you @nevodavid!
I really appreciate it :)

Choonho Son • Sep 15 '23 • Edited

Nice article !!

There are too many open source projects in github.
To narrow down the list, there is LinuxFoundation and CNCF(Cloud Native Cloud Foundation) which leads open source globally.

There are about 800 projects in LinuxFoundation.
LinuxFoundation Projects

If you are interested in Cloud, see Cloudforet project, a series of LinuxFoundation Project.

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 15 '23

Nice @choonho, thanks for sharing!
Im a big fan of the LinuxFoundation and CNCF.
Great suggestion :)

Richard Zampieri • Sep 14 '23

Here is a nodejs typescript project that everyone is more than welcome to contribute. It has 1.4 ⭐ and continue growing

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 14 '23

Awesome @rsaz, thanks for posting!

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 14 '23

Awesome @rsaz!
Thanks for posting :)

@Chrisdevcode • Sep 13 '23

I actually find this very helpful

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 13 '23

That's amazing @chrisimade!
I really appreciate you letting me know :)

Sama • Sep 13 '23

Nice article, Nathan!

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 13 '23

I really appreciate that @caloique!

Saurabh Rai • Sep 13 '23

Awesome Article, Nathan! 🔥

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 13 '23

Thanks so much @srbhr. That means a lot!

Utkarsh Mehta • Sep 13 '23

Nice one, Nathan!!

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 13 '23

Thanks Utkarsh!

Pizofreude • Sep 18 '23

Amazing way of finding first open source contribution, great write-up Nathan!

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 18 '23

Thanks so much @pizofreude. That means a lot :)

Lukas Krimphove • Sep 13 '23

Really helpful with Hacktober coming up.

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 14 '23

Thanks so much for letting me know @lukaskrimphove!
I really appreciate that :)

JorensM • Sep 14 '23

Thanks for the great tips, great article!

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 14 '23

Thank you @jorensm!
I really appreciate that :)

Kiran Krishnan • Sep 13 '23

Great article.

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 13 '23

Thank you @devkiran!

Kevin Ingles • Sep 15 '23

Nice article!!

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 15 '23

Thanks @keviningles!

Dennis A • Sep 18 '23

Really informative!

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 18 '23

Thanks @dennisartheart! I appreciate that :)

TarenCodes • Sep 14 '23

Thanks, Nathan. Excellent tips for getting started in open source.

Nathan Tarbert • Sep 14 '23 • Edited

Thanks @tarenpang :)
That's super encouraging. I really appreciate you letting me know!