A project to help beginners get started on contributing to open source
🚀✨ Help beginners to contribute to open source projects - firstcontributions/first-contributions
A project to help beginners get started on contributing to open source launched on January 10, 2018 with 10 votes, #1,061 of 3,021 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
In plain words
This is a project designed to help beginners start contributing to open source software. Launched in 2018, it provides guidance and resources for newcomers who want to participate in open source development but may not know where to begin. The project is hosted on GitHub and serves as a practical entry point for people looking to gain experience contributing to collaborative software projects.
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