S6E19: An Introduction to Open Source Projects for Beginners

Safia Abdalla is an open source developer, writer, and a software engineer at Microsoft and she also co-hosts the BookBytes podcast, a fortnightly book club for developers. She’s passionate about bringing people together to build great things and using storytelling to share knowledge.

In this episode, we discuss…

• How to get into open source development
• What makes a good open source project to start with
• Whether open source contributions can help you get a job
• How to transition from contributor to maintainer

Learn more about Safia and what we discussed on the Learn to Code With Me website.