Brian Douglas

There are a lot of barriers to contributing to open source, and I don’t think finding projects to contribute to should be the first hurdle. More companies are starting with open source by default, and employees are choosing to work for open-source projects thanks to the trend towards remote

From my time at GitHub, I learned that the label“good first issue” was created in response to the popularity of the first-timers-only project. Thanks to folks like Scott Hanselman and Kent C. Dodds there is a pathway into open-source contributions that is approachable. Unfortunately, the notion that you can