Complete Guide to Open Source - How to Contribute

Learn why and how to contribute to open source software. You will learn about how to find projects to contribute to, how to make issues and PRs, how to make money from open source, and more.

⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (00:00) Introduction
⌨️ (01:11) What is Open Source
⌨️ (01:46) Why you should care about Open Source
⌨️ (04:06) What is Git
⌨️ (04:56) What is GitHub
⌨️ (05:24) Example custom GitHub profile
⌨️ (06:01) GitHub features
⌨️ (13:37) GitHub Actions for Continuous Integration (CI)
⌨️ (14:49) Insights tab for more project information
⌨️ (15:04) GitHub Discussions for threaded conversations
⌨️ (15:41) GitHub Projects board like Trello
⌨️ (16:10) GitHub Wiki
⌨️ (17:15) How to find Open Source projects
⌨️ (19:40) How to write Markdown
⌨️ (27:58) Draft a Pull Request (PR)
⌨️ (29:06) Make money directly with GitHub Sponsors
⌨️ (30:15) Make money indirectly from Open Source
⌨️ (34:04) Everyone is a Project Maintainer
⌨️ (39:49) How to customize your GitHub profile
⌨️ (40:46) Conclusion

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[patrykm]

Finally a video that is more than just "Git commands you must memorize"

Thankyou for making this!

[Sheriff]

ah yes, another fantastic tutorial that I'm going to add to watch later and never see it again

[abubakaryasin]

This is the best 41 minute motivation I ever watched 🙌 👏

[frankiefab]

This is one of the comprehensive video on how to contribute to Open source. Concise and beginner friendly

[gutsnxr]

I swear, i am very lucky to have found this life-changing content.

Thank you so much for sharing.

[kd]

I've been trying to figure out how to get into open source and contribute to an open-source project and I feel this video is helping me take that first step. Thank you.

[rawhasan]

What an awesome tutorial to get me started contributing to open-source projects! Thanks a million for making it Eddie! Just loved it!!

[waiitwhaat]

Apple: My project
Opensource: *OUR* project

[LDdrums]

It really does feel well to collaborate with projects or to fullfil a need with a project of your own. People do appreciate it

[pavithrab]

I always wanted to contribute to open source but couldn't get a proper source that would give me clear instructions..but this video was incredible..I am already searching for the issues to get started with ..thank you so much :)

[MarlonEnglemam]

I love how passionate about the open source software collaboration this guy is!

[GreenTea]

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this! I just started looking into contributing to open source and this helped a lot for someone who's never done it before!

[matthieuo]

Thank's for this course, open source projects were a bit scary and blurry but now I understand them better and I can see the benefits of them (learn team work, learn to work on a big project, ....)

[louxidblaxk]

Bruh, you are a hero. I have always wanted to get into OS projects but didnt even know where to start or how it works.

[detroitpistonsplayoffs]

I’m only 60 seconds into this video but I am so excited because I can tell it’s about to be lit

[lasindunuwanga]

Contributing to open source project is a community service. Making videos like these is another level of it...

[KingPing]

I have seen a lot of helpful videos but this one is on steroids.

[_DRACrY]

I was searching over all the internet for this but it was in front of me all along 😅. Great video, really helped me a lot, More power to you guys.

[kumaravelrajan]

Such a beautiful, well structured explanation.

[muhammadainuddin]

This is a really great video for anyone like me who wants to get in open source as a beginner developer.