I usually send people that are new to tech (or have come from a closed source / microsoft background) to the OpenSource.Guide site - https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/
Tell HN: How to contribute to open source as a junior engineer
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Re: Tell HN: How to contribute to open source as a junior engineer
#12Very helpful advice! Mentorship is key for new contributors. Reaching out is a worthwhile skill to master in open source development.
Re: Tell HN: How to contribute to open source as a junior engineer
#13I'd downvote this post if I could. It's pushing people into OSS contributions only to land jobs. My advice: if you don't subconsciously feel like you want to contribute, don't do it. As to how to start, pick a small bug, typo, lacking documentation aspect, small missing feature or performance issue that annoys you in your everyday FOSS software and solve it.
> only to land jobs.
so what?
Re: Tell HN: How to contribute to open source as a junior engineer
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Re: Tell HN: How to contribute to open source as a junior engineer
#15This free course has a good quality and involves very good information on FOSS
https://www.coursera.org/learn/open-source-software-developm...
Also this book thought me a lot on how to think about FOSS from the ground up to the point of having a good contribution, a lot of good answers here were familiar to me because of this book. https://pragprog.com/titles/vbopens/forge-your-future-with-o...