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How to Get Started with Open Source

Sam Jarman πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’» 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 β€’

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

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Sam Jarman πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’» β€’

Looks great, Roshan! Lovely idea!

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Roshan Jossey β€’

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

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AxelleDRouge β€’

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

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Anthony Bouvier β€’

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 πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’» β€’

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 β€’

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 πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’» β€’

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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Ruben Arrebola β€’

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 πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’» β€’

Thanks Ruben! I appreciate the comment :)

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Ben Halpern β€’

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

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Sam Jarman πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’» β€’

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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Buffer β€’ β€’ Edited

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

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Sam Jarman πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’» β€’

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

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Theofanis Despoudis β€’

Great. I can recommend also this guide:

Open Source Guide

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Olusola Samuel β€’

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

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Sam Jarman πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’» β€’

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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Walker Harrison β€’

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 πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’» β€’

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