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Club for Open Source Contributor (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by jsttan21@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone! I noticed that many people here are willing and interested in contributing to the open source world with amazing talents, but unable to find a good project to contribute to.

So I was wondering if it would be a good idea for us to group up together, and create a club where we could explore different open source projects, and contribute to it, while contributing to the good of the community we use.

Experienced contributors could also contribute and assist in beginners by mentoring on the method of contributing to open source too.

What do you say?

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

There have been websites (and maybe there still are) that allow finding projects with the "beginner friendly", "first contribution", "good first issue" tags. However, I do believe that there are better ways to funnel motivated but undirected developers to projects and that can be by using external metadata like ratings (perceived code quality, pull request experience, response time for PRs, etc.), tags, links to ideas ("idea implemented partially|completely} in project XYZ"), and more.

Especially connecting it to people's ideas, wishes, and even bounties might garner support.

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