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Kelvin

I think a tip could be as a new to the open source community see anything that you could contribute. Specially document pages, spell checks or if examples and readme makes sense and etc. Usually the first open source contributions always start like those smaller fixes :)

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Dumebi Okolo

I have always wanted to find projects that I can contribute to their documentation, but I don't know how to find them/I have never found them.
The ones I see always require coding contributions.
How can I go about this?

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Christine Belzie

Oooh good question @dumebii! :) I definitely recommend doing the following:

  1. Look through the Readme file and contributing guides of projects and check for things like typos, and missing information (e.g. Code of Conduct, no license)
  2. Check to see if a product's tutorial is missing important steps(I suggest contributing to the project first) or has outdated information If you want to work on projects that are docs-centric, I mentioned a few of them here in my FreeCodeCamp article.
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Dumebi Okolo

Oh! Okay. I'd do these then. Thanks so much!