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Discussion on: Sloan's Inbox: How to connect with folks over Open Source?

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It's easier to contribute to a project you actively use, than coming into a new project without having experienced it a lot as a user.

Think of the parts you do already use - perhaps your first contributions can be via the forums, answering questions you know the answer to, or testing the scenarios in people's questions and raising well-described bugs if you find any - or even checking for known bugs to link to forum questions.

Then, some projects just aren't very well documented (how to build this? what are the requirements? how to test this?), and have no clear starting point. They would clearly benefit from a contribution documenting the basics - maybe you can provide this :-)

The more you go through this, the more you get to see of the project, and the files start to make sense .