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How can I join community coding projects? (programming.dev)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by 3rr4tt1c@programming.dev to c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev

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I'm trying to join some... not entirely sure what they're called. Like those projects where a group of people all work on a single community project. I hear discord is a good place for stuff like that. And beginner hackathons too. Any advice would be super helpful. Edit: Open Source Projects is what I meant 😅

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[–] Sten@programming.dev 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Just found this guide to open source contributions that looks pretty good: https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/

Section 4 is on finding projects to contribute to.

[–] 3rr4tt1c@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

Thank you. This seems very helpful.

[–] ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can check goodfirstissue for anything that might pique your interest. That's where I started, and it helped a lot to get used to issue tracking systems.

[–] 3rr4tt1c@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Thanks, it's mentioned in the link that u/Sten gave me as well.

[–] Doradocs@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

I heard of a place called Coding Simpletons they have a group on arcane chat. They seem to have a foss philosophy you might want to check that out. Most open source groups stay on open source platforms Discord is a cool interface for chat but riddled with spyware & proprietary.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Best way is to use open source software yourself, and then when you encounter a bug, fix it. Looking for open source alternatives to stuff you currently use is easy.