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How to Get Started with Open Source

Sam Jarman 👨🏼‍💻 on May 25, 2017

This is the 6th post in my Junior Developer Diaries blog series. I’m writing more every week, and you can sign up to hear more and read previous po...
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Roshan Jossey

I’m working on a project to help beginners get started on contributing open source projects. github.com/Roshanjossey/first-cont...
It’d be awesome if you could check it out and gimme feedback

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Sam Jarman 👨🏼‍💻

Looks great, Roshan! Lovely idea!

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Roshan Jossey

Thanks mate. Please do share it to people who might find it useful

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AxelleDRouge

I just used the project to learn how to make first contributions. Thanks, it helped a lot!

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Anthony Bouvier

Your link to an example CoC (or article about CoC) is just a hash link back to this article. If you happen to have a good link for this, please share. Glad you pointed out that a great repo should have a Code of Conduct. I think they're absolutely necessary.

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Sam Jarman 👨🏼‍💻

Good spotting Anthony! Totally agree. I was meaning to link to this - help.github.com/articles/adding-a-...

Thanks!

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Sarthak Srivastava

Sir,I have just studied HTML CSS Bootstrap and heading on to JS.I have no experience in the field.So can u give any sort of suggestions to me for starting my blog here at The Practical Dev or open source contributions.

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Sam Jarman 👨🏼‍💻

Click that "Write a post" button on the top left and write what you've done so far. Tell your story.

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Ben Halpern

Wonderful post, you're more than welcome to post other parts of the series. 😊

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Sam Jarman 👨🏼‍💻

Thanks Ben, that really means a lot coming from you :) I'll be posting the others very soon so more people can benefit from my writing! :)

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Ruben Arrebola

Awesome post Sam and thanks for share it, you have give me all the information I need to get started in GitHub to contribute to Open Source. :)

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Sam Jarman 👨🏼‍💻

Thanks Ruben! I appreciate the comment :)

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Buffer • Edited

There is a typo in "What is important is how you the*m* propose the change." :)

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Sam Jarman 👨🏼‍💻

Gosh, why do they put those keys so close together!?

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Walker Harrison

Great write-up, Sam. You might have already seen, but GitHub just released the results of their OSS survey.

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Sam Jarman 👨🏼‍💻

Thank you for the kind comment, Walker. Good link! Thank you :)

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Theofanis Despoudis

Great. I can recommend also this guide:

Open Source Guide

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Sam Jarman 👨🏼‍💻

Alexandros, thank you so much for your comment. It's really motivating to hear this when Im working on this series. Thank you and good luck! <3

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Olusola Samuel

Great post Sir. I'm sure this will help me as I begin my Javascript journey🚐.