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How to Make your first Open Source Contribution and Get Paid

server side digest on June 04, 2023

✨ Open source is like an ocean where there are many gems hidden but very few people dive to find one. When it comes to learning "How to code or ...
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Medea

the title is a bit misleading since the post does not specify how to actually earn money from contributing

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Prince Owusu

Exactly...

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Vytautas

I feel like maybe the author meant that contributing to open source may lead to a paid job

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Medea

probably, but they could have explicitely said

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Joe McMahon

The "get paid" part, from what is given here, is: spend quite a lot of time helping to maintain a project. This will build up your reputation in that community, and you will eventually be in a position to leverage the community when looking for a job.

Alternatively, you might be able to find a position that uses the software you've been contributing to, and your contributions might make a difference in the hiring process.

But directly? OSS projects are almost without exception labors of love by their communities, and working on them is working for free, unless the job you already have supports your working on the project.

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Muhammad Sifat Hossain

Is this a clickbait?

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Medea

looks like it

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William Torrez

I learn C programming, where can make contribution in this language.

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server side digest

You can't contribute using C language. Because C language has been used by big trading firms where they develop low latency systems or algorithms.

The projects that you'll find will mostly revolve around the MERN stack or Java Backend stack in software development

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Hartaj-Singh-Dev

hmm , money , now that's some good stuff .

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Alokrar

How to earn...

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Blitzcode

Nice post. I have been looking for ways to contribute to open source.

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Spandan Sehgal

Nice post... but how to earn money is missing.

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