Here's a list of 8+ open source projects you might want to contribute to.

Many of them are beginner-friendly:

first-contributions - an easy first open-source project to contribute to.

It has instructions on how to get started with the process, which makes it really easy. Highly recommend it for your first contribution.

https://github.com/firstcontributions/first-contributions

LinkFree - an open-source alternative to Linktree.

Built on: JavaScript, Node, React

Maintained by: @eddiejaoude
https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree

free-Web3-resources - a list of web3 learning resources.

Built on: markdown, plain text

Maintained by: @FrancescoCiull4
github.com/FrancescoXX/free-Web3-resources

atmosphere_pro - a secure P2P file transfer app.

Built on: Dart, Flutter

Maintained by: @atsigncompany

https://github.com/atsign-foundation/atmosphere_pro

energy-prices-api - a news site scraping API with a few different endpoints that provide links to articles related to energy prices.

Built on: JavaScript

Maintained by: @mizouzie

https://github.com/MizouziE/energy-prices-api

Friendly Reminder Bot - a friendly reminder twitter bot to keep you healthy and happy.

Built on: Python, plain text

Maintained by: @ykdojo (yes it's my project)

https://github.com/ykdojo/friendlyreminderbot

open-sauced/hot - a site that recommends the hottest projects on GitHub.

Built on: TypeScript, Node

Maintained by: @bdougieYO

https://github.com/open-sauced/hot

codinasion-programme - an open-source codebase for sharing programming solutions.

Built on: many languages.

Maintained by: Codinasion

https://github.com/codinasion/codinasion-programme

Feed-Monitor - a configurable service written in Go to monitor published feeds and create alerts based on filters.

Built on: Go

Maintained by: @TechSquidTV

https://github.com/KyleTryon/Feed-Monitor

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3 simple ways to find your first open-source project to contribute to.

A thread 🧵👇

First though, in case you're not familiar with the terms:
- GitHub repos = projects on GitHub
- Issues on GitHub = basically to-do's on each project
- PR = pull request. It's a way to *suggest* a change in a GitHub repo.

With that, let's start:

1. Go to firsttimersonly .com and look through the sites listed there.

For example, the first one listed there, first-contributions, is a GitHub repo that makes it easy & simple for beginners to make their first PR.

Once you find a repo you want to contribute to, try to find issues that are labeled "Good First Issue" or something similar. This applies to the following options, as well.

2. Contribute to a project you already use. This could be an NPM,  a Python package you're familiar with, etc.

Or you found a typo or a bug on @freeCodeCamp and you want to fix it?

Go ahead and do that!

3. Find projects from your favorite creators!

For example:
- @eddiejaoude has LinkFree, an open source alternative to Linktree: github. com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree
- @FrancescoCiull4 has a list of web3 learning resources on GitHub: github. com/FrancescoXX/free-Web3-resources

And I have an open-source friendly bot that sends you reminders to stay healthy and happy (*yeah, shameless plug but it's really easy to contribute to): github. com/ykdojo/friendlyreminderbot

Whatever repo you find, make sure that it's active and has a recent commit.