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I feel ashamed of trying to contribute to open source for a decade, but never finding a way to. Could someone help me? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by naoseiquemsou@kbin.social to c/opensource@kbin.social

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I can code, but I never found my way into any project. It's hard to explain, but I'm sort of a dysfunctional human being.

I always loved open source, and back then, I wanted to be an open source developer. I tried some things here and there, but they only became abandoned personal messed up projects or archived github repos.

I believe I could be a competent contributor to some project if I had some guidance, so I thought about asking for help.

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[–] naoseiquemsou@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for your comment. What a coincidence that you mentioned openstreetmap, because adding data became like a hobby to me. While it's some form of contribution, I wanted to go deeper into some project, be a developer.

It's hard to explain, but it's mostly the social aspect of it that I struggle with.

[–] Object@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Nice, that's a start. You can pick something you are interested in, for example your favorite OSM editing tool and try to improve it in some way.

Since I guess that you are interested in kbin too, you can try to improve something on it.