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Beyond Content Creation: How Open Source Contributions Can Help You Get Noticed

BekahHW on May 01, 2023

I know, I know. It’s kind of ironic to create content about not needing to create content to get noticed. In recent years, there’s been a big push ...
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Cynthia Iradukunda •

I recently started contributing to open source and its the best decision I have ever made in my career so far. I have gained a lot of experience, mentorship, and recomendation letters from the maintainers. Highly recommend it for newbies.

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Darshil Parikh •

How did you start contributing to open source .....Because I'm totally new bie and don't know from where I should start . Could you please guide me

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BekahHW OpenSauced •

Yessss. Check out the links at the bottom of this post: dev.to/opensauced/how-to-contribut.... If you come to our discord session or Twitter space, I can directly answer your questions, but there’s also some great links referenced in the Twitter thread.

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Darshil Parikh •

Thank you

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Pham Nguyen •

Bạn nên vào github.ở đó bạn sẽ biết thêm nhiều thứ? Chỉ là lời khuyên ?tuỳ thuộc vào bạn

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Darshil Parikh •

Được rồi
Cảm ơn

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Jake Doran •

I've yet to contribute to an Open Source project, but it is something that I would like to do as I really do see the value in coding publicly. Unfortunately, I am yet to find a suitable opportunity. The issues I've seen have predominantly already been taken care of or are stale and 5+ years old!

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BekahHW OpenSauced •

You should come to the Twitter space or one of our weekly chats! I'm happy to help you find a resource or a good fit for what you're looking for.

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Christopher Auga •

I would be glad to hop on this opportunity, I'm new to this and want to get involved

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Jake Doran •

I honestly don't use twitter much, what are the weekly chats? :)

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Csokán Pál András •

Interesting article and really helpful for me. Cheers

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BekahHW OpenSauced •

I'm so glad it was helpful!