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How to start with Open Source

Is opensourcing means coding

Absolutely not, anyone want to contribute to an open source project can change documentation and learn how to opensource
allmost 28 percent of contriubtions are of docs change and updation not related to programming

How to start opensourcing

let's take a look at firstcontributions/first-contributions this project just adds your profile to contributors list when you make a pr for that carefully read README.md in the project section

FILES

always when contributing to a project read the

README.md file , CONTRIBUTING_GUIDLINES ,CODE_OF_CONDUCT if available
this pops some idea about the project in your mind
that's all you can contribute to opensource

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