How to Start Contributing to Open Source

Forketyfork
6 min readJul 27, 2020
Image by Pexels from Pixabay

If your work as a software developer is not directly related to open source (i.e. you don’t spend most of your working time supporting or contributing to an open-source project), your GitHub profile may be blank, except for some study projects and test assignments.

This is not necessarily bad, and it doesn’t make you a bad developer. But probably you’d like to create outside visibility of your…

--

--

Forketyfork

Software developer @ JetBrains Space. I write technical how-to articles and occasional rants on software development in general. Opinions are my own.