One of the biggest question marks while contributing to open source is what to contribute to?
So let's see where to find these repositories-
GitHub search/explore
Github is a great way to find other open-source projects to work on. Here you can search by-
- Topics
- Languages
- Stars
- Trending
- And many more
A great topic to search for is good first issue. You can find beginner friendly issues that are easier to contribute
Good first issues.dev
Easily find beginner-friendly issues to work on. You can find repositories of different languages easily and start working on them.
Awesome for beginners GitHub repository
This is a collection of open-source projects on GitHub that you can contribute to. They are sorted based on the language so it is easy to find what you want to work on-
Good First Issues.com
This is another website with a list of many beginner friendly projects. You can search by labels, languages, repositories
Contribute to the apps and tools you use
Give back to the free open-source tools, websites, and apps you have been using by contributing to them! Here are a few to list-
Bonus
Since this is the month of hacktoberfest, here are 2 websites to find open source projects participating in hacktoberfest-
Hacktoberfest projects by Usman Sabuwala
This site lets you find projects based on a preferred language and even search for projects!
Hacktosearch by Saptarshi Basu
Search for projects you can contribute to by topics and languages. This is a great tool for finding more personalized projects.
I hope you found some great projects to contribute to from these resources.
What else do you use to find great projects? Let me know in the comments ;)
Useful links-
What is Open Source and how to get started?