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• Open Source Software and Corporate Influence
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2025

  I went to All Things Open and asked booth staff (of corporate booths) “do you contribute to open source at your day job?”

  All were a little surprised by the question. Most interpreted it as “do you release and maintain your own open source software under the banner of your company.” When I clarified that I would count spending time to make a quality issue reproduction or fixing a bug and sending a PR, I got one person who said they had. They sent a patch to fix a bug, when I dug in why: they told me there were zero workarounds and the bug blocked a critical feature, if they didn’t upstream a fix successfully they would have to fork and take on maintenance (of that fork).

  I share this, because I feel that the many developers don’t quite realize that they are able to do these actions (bystander effect). And many don’t know how to speak up and advocate for that work in a professional setting.

  It’s true that corporate ties to open source are pervasive. I also feel that there’s a huge untapped potential of people who are willing to contribute but aren’t ready or aren’t able.

  My talk (on teaching developers how to contribute to open source) wasn’t recorded, but a longer, earlier version was at PhillyETE https://chariotsolutions.com/screencast/philly-ete-2023-how-.... I also maintain a free service for contributors getting started https://www.codetriage.com/ and wrote a paid book on the topic https://howtoopensource.dev/.

• Ask HN: What Open Source Projects Need Help?
  46 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2024

  * https://www.codetriage.com/ (mentioned in these comments)

  I seem to recall yet another one, maybe with a name that invoked a traveling group of helpers who would jump into projects briefly to fix them up?

  On a related note, it would be cool if there was a way to leave a hobo sign equivalent if you find a project that is well-run and easy to contribute to. If the build and tests Just Work, etc., we should praise that project in a way that

• Gear Up for Hacktoberfest: IIT Mandi Students Empowering Open Source, Together!
  2 projects | dev.to | 30 Sep 2024

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• Curl is inside 22,734 Steam games
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2024

  I would advocate an additional method of supporting open source: contributing. Doesn’t even have to be features. Bug fixes or docs are amazing. Heck even opening really good issues where it’s clear the dev spent time getting a good reproduction. Daniel is a full time maintainer who would benefit from additional income. Many small projects have maintainers that a few dollars might be helpful but help would be more helpful.

  I went to some open source confs to promote a book I wrote (https://howtoopensource.dev) and free service (https://www.codetriage.com) and asked people working at booths for large companies if they can contribute to open source at their day job. Only one person had a positive example and in that case their team was literally blocked on the fix and there was no workaround. The rest seemed confused about why they should be spending work time to report issues or fix bugs. Some genuinely didn’t realize that was helpful and that “contributing to open source” doesn’t just mean releasing and maintaining your own code.

  So yes, please fund the software you use, also time and attention is valuable too.

  Last tip: If you want to make a habit of it, get it tracked like regular work. “Hey, is feature X done, can we move this card over?” …”Actually I still need to report an upstream issue before we are totally done, I’ll make another work item for it and get it checked off today”. If you feel like you would get pushback for that, then start smaller, by filing issues and talking about it after the fact. Most other engineers and quite a few managers see this as going above and beyond for your job.

• How to Find Open Source Projects to Contribute To
  1 project | dev.to | 3 Jun 2024

  Tools like Up for Grabs, CodeTriage, and Good First Issues are designed to help you find beginner-friendly open source projects. These platforms curate lists of issues that are suitable for beginners and folks new to contributing, making it easier to find projects where you can make contributions right away.

• Open Source Essentials : Mastering Git, GitHub, Issues, and Best Practices for Beginners
  3 projects | dev.to | 9 May 2024

  CodeTriage: To subscribe to your favorite open-source projects and get a new open issue from them in your inbox every day.

• Ask HN: Anyone looking for contributors for their open source projects
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2024
• 💼 50 Tips to Land a Remote Tech Job Based on My 45-Day Journey to 2 Offers
  6 projects | dev.to | 4 Mar 2024

  3. Open Source Contribution

• Docs Deserve More Respect
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2023

  I wrote a book with a chapter on how to write docs for other people’s code https://howtoopensource.dev

  I also wrote an open source tool for writing and testing tutorials https://github.com/zombocom/rundoc and another that will email you undocumented methods of open source code so you can practice writing documentation https://www.codetriage.com/.

• Where to Find Open Source Projects for Contribution?
  5 projects | dev.to | 14 Aug 2023

  CodeTriage helps you contribute to open source by “picking a handful of open issues and delivering them directly to your inbox”. (Source: CodeTriage)

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