This document provides guidance on how to get started contributing to open source projects. It first defines what open source software is, including that it is free to use and modify. It then discusses reasons to contribute such as learning from others, giving back, and furthering your career. The document proceeds to outline specific steps to take like building a small project, using version control with Git, choosing an open source license, writing documentation with Markdown, and sharing your work by pushing it to GitHub. Lastly, it notes that open source projects need roles like proofreaders, designers, coders and testers, and recommends finding the relevant community to identify issues to work on.

1. Getting Started Contributing
To Open Source
Brian P. Hogan

2. • What is open source software?
• Why should I contribute?
• How do I jump in?
• How do I contribute?

3. What is open source?

4. Free as in beer

5. Free as in speech

6. Why should I
contribute?

7. Learn From
Others

8. Give back

10. Discover new
tools and
technologies

11. make money

13. Get paid to do it

14. Get interviews
and offers

15. How do I jump
in?

16. First, build a thing.

17. "Remove Images"
bookmarklet

18. JavaScript code
var images = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
while(images.length > 0) {
images[0].parentNode.removeChild(images[0]);
}

19. Make it a link
<a href="javascript:(function(){
var images = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
while(images.length > 0) {
images[0].parentNode.removeChild(images[0]);
}
})();">Remove images</a>

20. Second,
embrace
version control

21. Versioning With Git
Create new repository in folder
$ git init
Add files to be committed
$ git add .
Commit files
$ git commit -m "First release"

22. Choose A License
Protect your work
• MIT license
• Apache 2.0 license
• GPL
• Creative Commons
http://choosealicense.com/

23. Write a README
(and learn
Markdown)

24. README.md
# Hide Images Bookmark
## What it does
Hides all the images on the page
## How to use it
Open `index.html` and drag the link to your bookmarks toolbar.
## How to contribute
Fork this repository, make changes, and send a pull request.
## License
MIT. See `license.txt`

25. Add your README and License
Add files to be committed
$ git add README.md LICENSE
Commit files
$ git commit -m "Add readme and license"

26. Share with the world

28. Push Code
Add Github as a remote
$ git add remote origin https://github.com/napcs/hide_images_bookmarklet
Then push your code
$ git push origin master

30. How Do I Contribute?

31. Open Source
Projects need
• Proofreaders
• Designers
• Coders
• Testers

32. Find The
community
• IRC
• Google Groups
• Email lists
• Slack
(the project homepage usually says
where people meet.)

33. Identify an issue