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tux0r
  1. Clone a project.
  2. Modify the code.
  3. diff -ruN original/ your-modifications/ > patch.txt.
  4. Send the original maintainers your patch.txt file.
  5. Now you contributed to an open source project.

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Mohamed Diouane

Thanks for your reply,
But i don't know what kind of projects , i have absolutely any ideas about open source projects in networking .

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Katie

Are you familiar with contributing to open source projects at all?

I was recently advised to practice doing "pull requests" and such with good etiquette and skill by simply fixing typographical errors in README.md files.

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Mohamed Diouane

Thanks for your reply Katie.
No, i'am not familiar with that and this a good a way to start and practice git with README.md files.

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Katie • Edited

Check out "An (even more) practical guide to open source contribution" -- you can see the author give the "try just editing a Readme" part of the talk he's referencing starting at 26:50 on this YouTube video -- the real meat of what he's introducing goes through 28:44.

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Mohamed Diouane

Thanks you so much . This is helpful