Ask HN: How to find Open Source projects to contribute to?

#1

Post by deyouz » Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 1:10 AM UTC

Hello, HN! I'm a student and I want to do something productive with my free time.

I would like to contribute to some Open Source projects, since it seems like a good learning experience.

Do you know any such projects? Or do you know where I could find them?

Thank you!

Re: Ask HN: How to find Open Source projects to contribute to?

#2

Post by verdverm » Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 1:13 AM UTC

GitHub?

Re: Ask HN: How to find Open Source projects to contribute to?

#3

Post by deyouz » Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 1:17 AM UTC

verdverm wrote: post #2

GitHub?

Thanks, I will look into it. I thought Github was only a place to host personal code or company code restricted to employees.

Re: Ask HN: How to find Open Source projects to contribute to?

#4

Post by mindcrime » Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 1:22 AM UTC

Just browse around GitHub, Gitlab, Sourceforge, Savannah, etc., until you find something that looks interesting.

Re: Ask HN: How to find Open Source projects to contribute to?

#5

Post by verdverm » Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 2:41 AM UTC

deyouz wrote: post #3

verdverm wrote: post #2

GitHub?

Thanks, I will look into it. I thought Github was only a place to host personal code or company code restricted to employees.

It's the defacto "social network" for code, tons and tons of open source and community