OpenHatch Blog

For almost any project there is an infinite amount of work to do. Check out OpenHatch for opportunities, or just dive in for things you rely on. Big communities are great too, checkout Linux or one of the distros: https://openhatch.org/ https://kernelnewbies.org/ https://www.debian.org/intro/help

Pick an open source community and you will find plenty of help. Paid internships with assigned mentors are also available through Summer of Code, Outreachy or project specific programs: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/ http://www.outreachy.org/ http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgEVoC/ OpenHatch is a great resource too: https://openhatch.org/

There are several ways to get started and it depends a lot on your motivations and are of interest. However the main piece of advice is to jump in, dont be worried about upsetting someone system, some OS projects arent setup well for contribution and they will become easy to spot, but for the ones that are, doing something 'wrong' is a great way for a maintainer to come along and help introduce you to how to do it 'right'. http://openhatch.org works a lot on making initial contributions easier, if you are interested in express then you dont need to work on the core framework, write a plugin and open source it, contributing is by far easier when you have a real need to do so, maybe someone will use your plugin and find a problem they want to fix, maybe you will use someones project and want to fix something.

I and some friends began a startup to make getting involved easier. We're building an open source involvement engine, helping people showcase their contributions to open source and find new opportunities. One thing I'm particularly happy with is our volunteer opportunity search engine; we index bugs from projects large and small, and we showcase places where projects have said they want help from new contributors. There's no other cross-project opportunity search. Sign up for our alpha at http://openhatch.org/. Right now, before you forget! We'd love more feedback from people interested in getting involved. Today is Demo Day run by our funders, Shotput Ventures, in case you follow those things. Once we hit public beta (just a little while) we'll make a real announcement here. (-:

This is great. I want this information to be in a form easily accessible and readable for any project maintainer who wants to learn about concrete ways to improve their projects. So, question: what form should that be? A blog post explaining the highlights, with a title with good keywords? A YouTube video with explanations and anecdotes, like a talk without a conference? Where do maintainers learn about this kind of thing (other than occasional news posts on HN with advice), so that we can make this information show up there? I volunteer for OpenHatch (https://openhatch.org/), a non-profit open source project that aims to help newcomers contribute to projects + help projects make themselves more welcoming. What do you think is the most effective step OpenHatch could take for helping maintainers? It has some efforts already, and I have some ideas, but I'm curious to hear more ideas. (Also if you want to help, OpenHatch is already a loose collection of people who care about this; come join us.)

Take a look at http://openhatch.org They try to match potential contributors with projects based on the needs of the project and the skills of the contributor.

https://openhatch.org/ Is an nonprofit dedicated towards helping people find and get involved in open source software

There are a couple of portals where you can find open source projects needing help, but I'm not sure they allow you to search by area. http://up-for-grabs.net/ https://openhatch.org/

I believe sites like http://up-for-grabs.net/ and https://openhatch.org/ are the kind of communities that we need more of. There is an attitude where people create projects to feed their egos, and giving help on existing projects doesn't seem to fulfil egos so much. Unfortunately, marketing your project is necessary, and for now the only idea I can give you is that we need to build tools to make that job easier.

Visit https://openhatch.org/ -- they exist to match people with good open source projects. Good luck!

You might want to check out OpenHatch: https://openhatch.org "OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education."

Second the suggestion of OpenHatch: http://openhatch.org/ If you are a college student, try getting into the Google Summer of Code next year: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 If you are a high school student, The Google Code-In contest may be of interest (dates for 2014 haven't been announced yet): https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/

http://solvers.io is this for charitable and scientific ideas (by me and davedx) https://openhatch.org/ is this for open source software in general

OpenHatch tries to solve this problem - help people find a good project, and in general, make it easier for new people to get into OSS. http://openhatch.org/

Check out OpenHatch http://openhatch.org/. Connecting people with time to projects with need is a big part of what they do.

There are a couple sites[0,3] which list projects which are looking for contributions. In addition, Github Explore[1] has different projects which might be of interest. If you're interested in larger projects, different companies have guides to getting involved and contributing[2]. [0]: http://www.lookingforpullrequests.com/ [1]: https://github.com/explore [2]: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/ [3]: http://openhatch.org/

I gonna give you couple of links that were already around on HN: - http://openhatch.org/ a list of issues in open sources project waiting to be fixed - http://duckduckhack.com/ you can add some plugins to duckduckgo (it's a search engine) - http://www.whatcanidoformozilla.org/

Find a project you are passionate about, fix the code, send a patch. Its 'that' easy. Many mature software projects have some bugs marked as 'Junior Jobs'. They are issues which maintainers felt could be fixed by a newcomer. OpenHatch[0] is a website which helps you find such projects/issues easily. [0] https://openhatch.org/

In the same area, OpenHatch[1] seems very nice. From their own landing page: OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education. [1] http://www.openhatch.org

Check https://openhatch.org/ There are a few end user apps written in Python that are seeking contributors (Serpentine, MV3D...)

OpenHatch lists tasks from various open-source projects, usually aimed at new contributors - http://openhatch.org/search/ - any project listed there would be actively looking for help and welcoming to new people. From my experience though, just about every open-source project out there would love to have more people helping out. Have a look at the project's bug tracker.

Here's a place that teaches you about joining, giving nice experience for when you start your own: http://openhatch.org/

http://openhatch.org/ OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities.

I can point you to two places: 1. http://pythonmentors.com/ This will solve the mentor-ship problem you have. Folks in the core and around who are mentors will listen to your problems and can help you on the way. Although they are very nice with newbies, please make sure that you try to be as clear and professional in your approach/questions as possible. 2. http://openhatch.org/ This website gives you small, medium and tough level of bugs in most of the prominent opensource projects. Hope this helps.

I'd suggest http://openhatch.org/. Choose Python as a language and start with "bitesized" issues.

"OpenHatch: thousands of bite-sized bugs" http://openhatch.org/

Check out http://openhatch.org/. Its purpose is to make it easy for people to get involved in open source projects by identifying "bite-sized bigs" that are good for a newcomer to work on, among other things. I found out about the site when I was at the OSCON Open Source Convention, and saw a talk on the subject: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/14066

https://openhatch.org/ https://www.codetriage.com/

Some do - see https://openhatch.org/