You’ve been benefiting from the use of open source projects all year. Now is the time to say thanks to the maintainers of those projects, and a little birdy tells me that they love receiving contributions!
There are lots of ways to get involved in an open source project: improving docs, designs or existing code, supporting other users, fixing, replicating or triaging issues and bugs, or adding missing features.
New to open source? Here's our primer.
Contributing to open source projects is also a great way to build your profile in the community and improve your CV.
It’s really easy to get started. Even small contributions can be really valuable to a project.
This year we are encouraging organisers around the world to hold 24 Pull Requests hack events. Get involved this holiday season.
View events Host an eventJoin the chat on Gitter, 24pullrequests/24pullrequests.
Join everyone here and make open source better.
View AllWonder what people are up to this holiday? Check out these contributions, or make a contribution now and find yours here!
View AllCan’t think of a project you’d like to help contribute to? We’ve put together a list of popular projects here.
Suggest a project View AllVagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
Collabora Online is a collaborative online office suite based on LibreOffice technology. This is also the source for the Collabora Office apps for iOS and Android.
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility.
CrateDB is a distributed and scalable SQL database for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data in near real-time, even with complex queries. It is PostgreSQL-compatible, and based on Lucene.
A multi-backend compiler for Perl 6, currently supporting Parrot and the JVM