Starting Open Source: How To Make Your First Contribution (15 min)

So, you want to join the Open Source party, but you're not used to every man and his dog looking at your code. You keep putting it off, you don't know anyone involved in the project, you might be a burden...

If you want to get involved but keep talking yourself out of it, let me show you how to take that first step. I'll cover the mechanics and the fear of contributing, from saying hello and installing the project to selecting a bug and surviving the fear of your first pull request and code review using git and GitHub.