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Discussion on: [On-Demand Talk] Babystepping Your Way to Becoming an Open Source Contributor

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Christina

It is important to find projects that have a good contributor guide as well. Even if you aren't super familiar with a language the repo maintainers can make it easier to get started. This might be a good list to check out 😄
github.com/Virtual-Coffee/virtualc...

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callumreid

Thank you Christina! It's nearly spooky season and I have a big goal to get started contributing to open source over the next month!

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Christina

If you are ever interested in contributing to Forem (The software that powers DEV and CodeNewbie) let me know.
I'd love to help you find a good issue and get started 😄 If you have specific programming languages you work with and need help finding a different project I could probably help with that too!

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callumreid

I am INCREDIBLY interested, Christina! I am most practiced in Javascript, React, MySQL, and MongoDB-- but always am hungry to learn new things. Any help toward a good first issue would be hugely appreciated, and any advice will be taken to heart. Not sure the best way to connect-- but my github is github.com/callumreid. Thank you for the kindness 😁

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Christina

I'm working on a list of good issues this next week for Hacktoberfest so I will definitely reach out to you. I'm on Twitter too if you are there and want to chat through DMs. twitter.com/coffeecraftcode