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Dev tools · June 27, 2017

Open Source Friday

contributing to the software you use and love

Open Source Friday launched on June 27, 2017 with 9 votes, #939 of 3,107 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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What it does

This Friday, invest a few hours contributing to the software you use and love.

Open source is made by people just like you. This Friday, invest a few hours contributing to the software you use and love. Learn what it means to contribute, and how to find and get started on a new project. Contributing to open source happens at all levels, across projects and design, documentation, operations and code. You don't need to overthink what exactly your first contribution will be, or how it will look Start by thinking about the projects you already use or want to use. The projects you'll actively contribute to are the ones you find yourself coming back to. Find a project that has a history and reputation for being welcoming to new contributors in GitHub's great for new…from opensourcefriday.com

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