Contributing To Open Source – Beginner's Guide

This course covers everything you need to contribute meaningfully to existing open-source software projects.

⭐️ Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Course Introduction
⌨️ (0:05:42) Instructor + Outcomes
⌨️ (0:09:46) What is Open Source?
⌨️ (0:14:10) Projects, Repos, Issues, Pull Requests
⌨️ (0:19:06) The Benefits Of Open Source
⌨️ (0:26:33) The Right Reason To Do Open Source
⌨️ (0:32:27) Improve Something You Use
⌨️ (0:41:59) Find Companies Active In Open Source
⌨️ (0:48:59) Choose The Right Project
⌨️ (0:59:39) Go With The Flow
⌨️ (1:09:40) Identify A First Task
⌨️ (1:21:46) Case Study: ReactJS Open Source Repo
⌨️ (1:24:26) Find The Project Community
⌨️ (1:34:59) Learning The Codebase
⌨️ (1:44:04) What Are The Most Important Modules?
⌨️ (1:48:17) What Opinions Do The Authors Have?
⌨️ (1:52:16) Share What You Learn
⌨️ (1:58:08) Start With Something Small
⌨️ (2:03:14) Good Practices When Making Commits
⌨️ (2:10:25) Be Like Water
⌨️ (2:16:59) Anticipate Common Pushback
⌨️ (2:25:39) Taking The Next Step

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[joinTaro]

Awesome to see an industry expert and one of our best instructors on freeCodeCamp!!

[eddieoconnor]

Nice!!....always wanted to "give back" to the Open Source community...but lacked the skills....maybe I'll one day see my name in a list of developers who crossed!!!

[RahulPandeyrkp]

So much respect for James and what he did at Meta! (aka Facebook)

[AndrewKim-vb]

Thank you so much for the great content. The principles do not apply only to opensource projects but also projects within companies as clearly suggested in the talk. Bravo!

[salehabdullahi]

Anytime I'm looking for something, you guys deliver

[fredo]

Presenting from a boat in Cartagena, Colombia. What a surprise!

[ringostarkiller]

I've waited so long for this course!!! 🤩

[SHUBH]

Vistara and indigo had a very good price compition.
The route i take for my hometown from delhi always had vistara as the cheapest option and a meal which is included in vistara, since the merger the same flight is $10 15 more expensive now which makes indigo cheapest in that route

[watchz]

Shouldn't the thumbnail say "Become an Open Source Main"?

[phat]

I’ve watched 10 ads but didn’t get any useful info between them 🤷‍♂️

[phat]

Didn’t you manage to earn for a new micro? 😢

[alveek]

Right
And after years of contributing you can be banned because of your nationality, skin color or gender
No, thanks

[DHARMA]

After they banned people from my country who contributed alot. Well I'd say "No thanks" to that.