Simon Willison’s Weblog

How can a new developer get involved in open-source projects?

14th February 2012

My answer to How can a new developer get involved in open-source projects? on Quora

I was going to say the same thing. Find a useful project in GitHub (preferably one that clearly has an active maintainer), fork it, fix a bug (look at the project’s issue tracker) then make a pull request.

It’s best to do this on a project that you are personally using, since then you’ll have a better understanding of what needs to be improved.