How To Get Started With Open Source Project Contribution

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Open source is in your best interest, whether you're an individual, a corporation, a small business, a non-profit, or a government agency.
Contributing to Open Source can be a rewarding way to learn, teach, share and build experience. There are plenty of reasons why one/people would contribute to an Open Source Project, some of the reasons are:

To improve the software you rely on
To find a mentor if need one
Learn new skills
Share your skills
helps you gain a much deeper knowledge about the software
helps your reputation and can leverage your career
is fun and gives you personal satisfaction What is your motivation to contribute to open source projects? Let me know by responding to this post or via Comment Section.

How can one Contribute Open Source ?

Contributing does not necessarily mean to contribute to code, one can contribute to open source in many different ways, like:

You can add a description to elaborate more or even give a guidance to a given project.
Add examples to show how the code works
Write tutorials for the project
Do a translation for a project
You can answer questions about a project (Stack overflow, Reddit)
Offer to mentor another contributor
Fix typos and arrange the work folder correctly

All of the above ways count towards contributing to an open source project.

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