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📣 ishqdehlvi

I am student with freelance skills but how to switch to opensource?


I am a fullstack dev who has experience of freelance but I am confused in getting started with opensource. Please guys help me out in suggesting...


  👤 gus_massa Accepted Answer ✓
Which open source projects are you using and you like? Try to contribute to them.

Start sending bug reports that are very useful and dometimes underestimated. Look how/where they fix them and the next time try to send a pull request (or another bug report).

Fixing typos in docs is also a good starting point.

If you want to send a new feature, start with something small, like a weekend project. You never know if the mantainer will like it, or if they are morons or if they have very weird code rules.


👤 pabs3
Check out the FOSSjobs website and wiki:

https://www.fossjobs.net/ https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources

Especially look at the internship programs and choose an area that has a significant number of employers, such as the Linux kernel.