When can i start contributing to open source ?

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  • good-first-issue

    Make your first open-source contribution.

    Many OSS projects have also marked certain issues as "good first issues". These issues are usually easy to solve so they are suitable for getting started. At https://github.com/topics/good-first-issue, for example, you can view them for Github. Sites such as https://goodfirstissue.dev or https://goodfirstissues.com offer the same thing, but in a better format and with a search function.

  • awesome-for-beginners

    A list of awesome beginners-friendly projects.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • first-contributions

    🚀✨ Help beginners to contribute to open source projects

    For this you can also look at https://github.com/firstcontributions/first-contributions. The project is specially intended for beginners.

  • class-validator

    Decorator-based property validation for classes.

    After that I have recently gotten into contributing some code to a few projects that I use, class-validator and validator.js which are nice and simple to contribute to validators mostly follow a standardised format.

  • validator.js

    String validation

    After that I have recently gotten into contributing some code to a few projects that I use, class-validator and validator.js which are nice and simple to contribute to validators mostly follow a standardised format.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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