How I found my way to contribute to OSS

Comments (1)

tarasyarema · 5h ago

Hi there!

I always wanted to contribute to OSS. I tried direct ways to do it, like Hacktoberfest, finding good-first-issues, reading contribution guides. Nevertheless, after a while I found that the best way to do it (for me) was to actually build something I was passionate about first, which naturally led to contributions.

tl;dr: Stop trying to force contributions. Start by solving your own problems, and the contributions will follow.

Curious about how did you started to contribute? Any fun stories around that?

Hackers Exploit Microsoft SharePoint as Firm Works on Patches (bloomberg.com)

Zigazoo too, Another Firebase Boogaloo: "The Largest Social Network for Kids " (amenbreakpoint.com)

Sculpt: Building the Anti-Company Company (sculpt.fun)

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat 'like dogs' (theguardian.com)

(Python) Poste Italiane document parser (github.com)

Cryptocurrency exchanges begin offering tokenized securities (apnews.com)

How psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation (nature.com)

Liquid Glass Design or Kitsch? (ia.net)

Extreme heatwaves may cause global decline in dairy production, scientists warn (theguardian.com)

OTP Input Field with StimulusJS (avohq.io)

How to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off (theregister.com)

Install Linters, Get Malware (c-b.io)

Call: Open-source gmeet and zoom alternative (joincall.co)

Show HN: Improve Your Spanish, French or German Language Skills via an Email Bot (tnxapi.com)

Show HN: MCP server for up-to-date Zig standard library documentation (github.com)

The Robots That Are Taking over Your Food Delivery (wsj.com)

Google Sues Operators of a 10M Device Android Set-Top Box Botnet (torrentfreak.com)

AI Sovereignty: The Emperor Has No Clothes (engineeringprompts.substack.com)

Coldplayed: A New Verb Is Born After Viral Coldplay Concert Scandal (suntechpulse.com)

Show HN: Make fake ChatGPT chats for memes and pranks (fakechatgpt.com)

Mixture-of-Recursions: Learning Dynamic Recursive Depths (arxiv.org)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next funded in under 7 minutes in Kickstarter (escapistmagazine.com)

Positron – A next-generation data science IDE (positron.posit.co)

Show HN: I made an Amazon Ads AI Agent that works in email/Slack (cohesyve.com)

Cancer Research for Dogs Is Helping Improve Treatment for Pets and Humans Alike (smithsonianmag.com)

Read the Room, Rethink the Retro (spin.atomicobject.com)

Why Concatenative Programming Matters (2012) (evincarofautumn.blogspot.com)

North Korea bars foreign tourists from new seaside resort (rte.ie)

A concise list of advice for new managers (twitter.com)

Unblur Video AI Online (unblurvideoai.com)

Water Hidden Within Lunar Soil Could Make Life on the Moon Possible (discovermagazine.com)

Developing with Kiro: Amazon's New Agentic IDE (yehudacohen.substack.com)

Pwndb Is Back Online (pwndb.com)

How Seawater Could Solve the Lithium Supply Crisis (oilprice.com)

Evidence shows Jeju Air pilots shut off less-damaged engine before crash (reuters.com)

Local Airport Might Be Attracting Alien Attention (popularmechanics.com)

How to create a PDFs API using Puppeteer with auto-deploy to AWS Lambda (buglesstack.com)

New Google Colab features for higher education (blog.google)

Man Group – Improving Python: How we made pip install twice as fast (man.com)

Ask HN: Would this idea get retrocomputing enthusiasts typing in programs again?

Deeper Theories of Program Design (typesanitizer.com)

Ask HN: How to find non-popular blogs and forums?

The Consulting Crash Is Coming (thefp.com)

HTTP/1.1 Must Die (http1mustdie.com)

Long-Distance FBG Sensor Networks Multiplexed in Asymmetric Tree Topology (mdpi.com)

Show HN: Harpoon-style window switcher prototype (100% Vibe coded) (github.com)

Tehran will shut down on Wednesday due to a heat wave (apnews.com)

I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again (indiehackers.com)

Ask HN: You Have Been Blocked (Half Price Books Blocking Denmark)?

Show HN: Want to know how to say the same thing in 20 languages? (howtosay.cc)

How I found my way to contribute to OSS

Comments (1)