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Open source contributions: Just do it
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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For years I actually want to contribute, for any project that I use I don't care, I just want to do something, but my English is not fluent, it is reasonable but not fluent, I have a little of social anxiety, and I have no bounds with anyone that contribute with these projects, so I am terrified of taking an issue to work. You know, I don't want to do shit, and I probably does not know these projects so well so I feel a little stuck.
I already opened some issues but I only did that
that is one big barrier to entry that we should have at least some focus on trying to solve, depending on the distro you use they might have some communities that speak your language, on fedora we have a bunch of language-specific communities on our Matrix server, where people usually offer to help whenever needed