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Contributed to dev.to and you can too!

Rembrandt Reyes (He/Him) on July 10, 2020

I just wanted to say that if you are thinking about contributing to OSS. DEV is a great place to get started. Their installation documentation is g...
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Ben Halpern

And let's all remember that contributions to dev.to are contributions to forem!

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David

I didn't realize it was OSS! Nice and thanks for sharing this!

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Rembrandt Reyes (He/Him)

Yeah! Definitely check it out and get your contributing badge :D

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David

And turn myself into a honey (badge)r? Nah. I kid. Poked around issues. Some day or when/if I find a bug that annoys the crap outta me. Currently swamped with personal projects and work, but still waste time perusing Dev.to 😅

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Rembrandt Reyes (He/Him)

Haha, yah same. Sometimes it's nice to get away from the same old same old.

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Dzhavat Ushev

It's great to see DEV doing so many nice things to encourage and support contributions. Really like the developer guide for how to setup a local env and the use of labels on issues.

I wrote earlier this week how many popular OOS lack this kind of care when it comes to new contributors. Happy to see that DEV is actively doing something to NOT be one of them.

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Rembrandt Reyes (He/Him)

Great article! Yeah, I think it's harder to contribute to more established OSS for a couple of reasons: the number of contributors and the product is more stable. I tend to stick to OSS repos that are similar to DEV in size.

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Keagan Van Rooyen

I'm going to have a look through some issues tonight, got to get that badge😂

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Rembrandt Reyes (He/Him)

Do it! :D

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Vikrant Bhat

Hey, thanks for the heads up!

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Rembrandt Reyes (He/Him)

No problem!

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Anik Khan

I was thinking about contributing OSS. And you just show me a wonderful direction. Awesome man! Solid article.👍🏼 #kudos

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Rembrandt Reyes (He/Him)

That's what's up! Definitely check it out. There are some good first-time contributor issues in there. 👏 🙌