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Divyesh Parmar
Divyesh Parmar

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A beginner trying for the first Open Source Project

So I have been ranting few things since many months like

  • I have graduated in ICT
  • I need to complete geeksforgeeks now
  • I need to find a job (even my mom has started looking on AngelList, Glassdoor, LinkedIn now.
  • I need to created projects with what I'm learning which I did actually you guys can see here
    • blogsite
    • star wars movie fan
    • I had one Python-Django Blog site up too but the PythonAnywhere server's 3 months has completed so I will deploy it again.

But one thing I haven't been doing and I'm so afraid of and confused about how to start and which project to start with Open source contribution

Can anyone please suggest

  • any open source projects or
  • people who do it and are on twitter or any other platform,
  • or any awesome github repo that I can look at

with the technologies Node.js/Express.js because I have mostly practiced with it. Any Python projects would be cool too I can understand that.

Please give out guidance for the path I should imagine ahead and/or look for.Suggestions!

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Alex Gwartney

I would start looking here. github.com/freeCodeCamp/how-to-con...

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Divyesh Parmar

woah! I have practiced on freeCodeCamp but never thought of it. Thank you so much for the kind response. This is going to give me nice head up

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Alex Gwartney

Yea not a problem glad I was able to help.

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š’ŽWii šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø

So if I understand you correctly, you are looking to contribute to some open source project?

I would advise you to go at it from the opposite direction; look for stuff you want to use, specially if it's not all that well known or relatively new, and just start using it. Sooner or later you'll find yourself wishing there was some feature, or even find a bug.

It's much easier to implement something you actually want than to go out looking for stuff you could implement for the sake of contributing.

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š’ŽWii šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø

Error: encountered EOF, expected )

(You open a ( on your third bullet point and never close it :P)

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Shan Khan

Checkout Visual Studio Code Settings Sync extension

Build on Node and Typescript.

I'm currently managing it, glad to help if you want to contribute.

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George Pantazes

The codetriage.com site sends you open source project bugs that need attention.

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Meghan (she/her)
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Juneau Lim

I wanted to ask the same question and found this post. Thanks for asking ahead of me!

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Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer

i made this project

github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ/honeybot

specifically for beginners, see open issues, i also rewrote the README to accomodate new people and help them contributing !