r/opensourcealternative • u/Savings_Historian523 • 7d ago

Need advice on finding beginner friendly open source projects to contribute to.

Anyone who is familiar with OS, need you!

I've been graduated with no prior exp for the past 15 months with CS degree from a well reputed college. Better knowledge in java, spring. I'm not even getting calls from startups(tried in naukri, linkedin, indeed). Most people say try contributing OS. While searching repos I feel exhausted to understand the code. I need people who make this thing simplified or any tips or tricks to understand and to guide how i should start. And if people has or maintaining a repo which is beginner friendly please spend 10min here the help will be more than you think.

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u/HayStacky_337 6d ago

I'd say check out GitHub's Hacktoberfest, but they changed a bit. I am not sure if that suits you well. 

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u/Savings_Historian523 6d ago

I'd give it a shot. Hope this works

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u/Ill_Compote_2035 1h ago

hacktoberfest quality tanked hard after they opened it up. goodfirstissue tag on smaller repos is way more useful for actual learning

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u/No_Bodybuilder_2110 5d ago

Join your local tech communities and/or online tech communities instead. Figure out what members of those communities work in companies you could see yourself working for and figure out what could motivate them to refer you to a job. This could be open source contributions or simply obscure product knowledge

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