--- title: A complete guide to open source - 100x simpler | daily.dev description: The post provides a comprehensive guide to getting started with open source, covering essential concepts, benefits, and various roles in open-source projects.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-complete-guide-to-open-source---100x-simpler-yk5hdm7oa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A complete guide to open source - 100x simpler | daily.dev og:description: The post provides a comprehensive guide to getting started with open source, covering essential concepts, benefits, and various roles in open-source projects.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-complete-guide-to-open-source---100x-simpler-yk5hdm7oa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yK5hdm7OA.png og:image:alt: A complete guide to open source - 100x simpler og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A complete guide to open source - 100x simpler **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · [@anmolbaranwal](https://daily.dev/anmolbaranwal) · 20 min read · 209 upvotes · 10 comments ## Summary The post provides a comprehensive guide to getting started with open source, covering essential concepts, benefits, and various roles in open-source projects. It offers practical advice on contributing, including for non-coders, details pre-requisites like Git, GitHub, and Markdown, and explains conventions like conventional commits. Additionally, it underscores the importance of guidelines, legal aspects, and ways to effectively find and contribute to good projects. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@timnekk** · 3 upvotes > Really nice article! Defenetly bookmarking it! **@nabby27** · 2 upvotes > Regarding point 9, there are also interesting projects where you can contribute to on [Opire](https://app.opire.dev) (and also earn extra money). Good article 👏 > > PS: I'm one of the co-founders of Opire **@rhythmusbyte** · 1 upvotes > Well written article **@beatre** · 0 upvotes > Nice article 👍 **@rizwandev99** · 0 upvotes > do you work somewhere??? > or just a freelancer cum open source contributer. --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#community](https://daily.dev/tags/community), [#git](https://daily.dev/tags/git) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-complete-guide-to-open-source---100x-simpler-yk5hdm7oa) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"A complete guide to open source - 100x simpler","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-complete-guide-to-open-source---100x-simpler-yk5hdm7oa","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-complete-guide-to-open-source---100x-simpler-yk5hdm7oa"},"datePublished":"2024-07-15T12:23:00.559Z","dateModified":"2024-08-23T16:01:11.921Z","description":"The post provides a comprehensive guide to getting started with open source, covering essential concepts, benefits, and various roles in open-source projects....","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/da0ef4b41612e2cb85850919279f2208?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/da0ef4b41612e2cb85850919279f2208?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Community Picks","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Anmol Baranwal","url":"https://daily.dev/anmolbaranwal","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/74038190?v=4","description":"Just a tech guy who loves writing and building cool stuff","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":21440}},"commentCount":10,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-complete-guide-to-open-source---100x-simpler-yk5hdm7oa","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":209},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":10}],"keywords":"open-source,github,community,git","timeRequired":"PT20M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Community Picks","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/community"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"A complete guide to open source - 100x simpler"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-complete-guide-to-open-source---100x-simpler-yk5hdm7oa","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Really nice article! Defenetly bookmarking it!","datePublished":"2024-10-02T23:08:58.696Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/yK5hdm7OA#c-2wpoDhEIR","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"TimNekk","url":"https://daily.dev/timnekk","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocKOeF_pXIlpO1albTTTORr1IeM07mOzDgajCm1CpfP3-5fbtKZI=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Regarding point 9, there are also interesting projects where you can contribute to on Opire (and also earn extra money). 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