Getting Started Contributing
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Open source on GitHub is already global and growing: projects average contributors from 41 countries, and between Oct 2018–Sep 2019 each of the top 50 projects supports 3.6M+ dependent repositories on average while projects average 180 package dependencies. Last year the top 1,000 projects saw 5M contributions from 350k people and over 1M first-time contributors. Practical entry points: use github.com/explore, triage issues with codetriage, improve docs/design, join Open Source Friday or Hacktoberfest.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 0:41Open Source Ecosystem & Getting Started Contributing
- 7:09Why do people contribute to open source?
- 8:34You don't have to contribute only code!
- 9:50Where to get started
- 13:42and many more other ways to get involved!
- 14:27Questions? Concerns? Comments?
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