Here's How to Make your First Open-Source Contribution.

Open-Source has been a demanded skill. The way to get remote jobs/internships without much efforts. Many people find it difficult to make their first open source contribution and their first PR (Pull Request).

What Does Open-Source Contribution Mean ?

The way through which a person who is not a part of an organization and helps in enhancing the software/product of that organization through his/her skills from the comfort of their home is known as open-source contribution.

Open source contributions can take various forms, such as:

1. Code contributions: Writing, modifying, or optimizing source code to add new features, fix bugs, or improve performance.
2. Bug reporting and testing: Identifying and reporting bugs or issues in the software, as well as helping with testing and quality assurance to ensure the software functions as intended.
3. Documentation: Creating or improving documentation, such as user guides, installation instructions, and developer documentation, to make the software more accessible and understandable.
4. Community support: Assisting other users or developers by answering questions, providing support, and participating in discussions on forums, mailing lists, or chat channels.
5. Design and user interface contributions: Contributing to the visual design, user interface, or user experience of the software, making it more intuitive and user-friendly.
6. Translations: Translating the software or its documentation into different languages to make it more accessible to users worldwide.

Open source contributions are typically voluntary and driven by a desire to collaborate with others, improve the software, and give back to the open source community. Many open source projects encourage and welcome contributions from individuals with diverse backgrounds and skill sets, allowing them to learn, gain experience, and make a positive impact on widely used software.

How to Make Your First Open-Source Contribution ?

1. Choose an organization
2. Choose a particular project which suits your skill sets.
3. Start with small and easy contributions aka good-first-issues.
4. Start setting up the development environment on your local system.
5. Create an issue or work on the previously created issues by mentors.
6. Clone the project on your GitHub account.
7. Make changes to solve that particular issue in the project.
8. Now create a pull request (PR).
9. The PR should be with proper explanation and do mention mentors (if any).
10. Now, your work is done. Wait for your mentors to review it.

Benefits of Open-Source Contribution

First, and the most beneficial one is you can get in touch which amazing mentors around the world.

Second, you might get a remote job.

Third, your skills enhance exponentially. The things which you will learn from a 3 month course, open source will help you to learn in minimal time period that too for free most probably.

And last but not the least, you get a higher pay as well. ??

Open-Source will open those doors for you, which your didn't even think of.

So, start contributing today.

Also mention in comments, once you have made your first contribution.