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Ask HN: Who's looking for contributors for OSS Projects

by mr_o47 on 11/4/23, 3:23 AM with 9 comments

I want to improve my skills by contributing to open source projects. I can help with:

    Enhancing Documentation
    Project Management
    Fixing Bugs

  • by bruce511 on 11/4/23, 3:43 AM

    I think this is a fantastic question, I hope you get a bunch of good answers.

    I do however recommend you choose a project that you are interested in, something you can use yourself. You'll find your time more rewarding if you can "stick" with a project for longer than just "improving my skills".

    As such a good starting point might be something in a non-tech space, but which is a hobby of yours. For example a bird-watcher might seek out bird-watching-software and see if thats a good fit.

    I say non-tech only because those areas are the least served. Tech programs naturally get the lions share of techie contributers. (Although clearly not the lions share of good docs.)

  • by langur on 11/8/23, 4:43 AM

    Check out ZITADEL, an open source identity and access management solution - https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel

    A good starting place is the issues. You can also check our documentation and make PRs for improvements. And feel free to jump into discussions. We also give swag to our first-time contributors as a token of appreciation.

  • by austin-cheney on 11/7/23, 1:40 PM

    I have a project to create an OS that executes in the web browser with a localhost Node backend. The goal is to create a universal operating environment that works securely the same way on all modern computers with flexibility. See if its something that might interest you.

    https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems

  • by asicsp on 11/4/23, 4:34 AM

    See also: https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/ (includes links to find projects to contribute)

  • by maxisaurus on 11/6/23, 10:53 AM

    Never tried it myself but check OnlyDust (https://www.onlydust.xyz/) PS: not affiliated with them, just know on dev there

  • by petabytes on 11/4/23, 4:09 AM

    Magic Lantern definitely needs a lot of help in terms of reverse engineering, build system (we are still depending on python2) and also documentation and wiki stuff. https://magiclantern.fm/

  • by vkaku on 11/4/23, 9:23 AM

    Check out Omnigres: https://github.com/omnigres/omnigres/wiki/Bounties

    They just launched a bounty program recently.

  • by ingoaf on 11/4/23, 10:28 AM

    Uptime Kuma needs a lot of help with documentation https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma