Welcome to Public Lab's coding community!
We're so happy to meet you! This page is to welcome new contributors.
We especially welcome contributions from people from groups underrepresented in free and open source software!
Our community aspires to be a respectful place. Please read and abide by our Code of Conduct.
If you're new, and looking to get involved, you're in the right place. Check out our README to get started.
If you're new to GitHub, using branches, or opening pull requests, read here for an introduction.
If you have trouble, check out our chatroom to ask for help, or you can talk directly with the other contributors on our Gitter chatroom or just open an issue and we'll write back!
Learn our process
We have a welcoming "workflow" that supports you in getting started, then helps you reach out to welcome someone else in turn!
1.
Try an issue
We've prepared extra-welcoming "first timers only" issues just for you.
2.
Help someone else out
Use your new skills to assist someone else who's just starting out. Browse issues below to see who needs help!
3.
Create a welcoming issue for someone else
Read below to learn how to create a "first timers only" issue yourself!
First-timers-only issues
Here are a selection of issues we've made especially for first-timers. We're here to help, so just ask if one looks interesting, by leaving a comment!
No issues left? See issues across this org here, and see the almost-as-good "candidates" below. Or learn how to prepare new first-timers-only issues here.
Candidates
We put a lot of work into our first-timer-only issues. But if we haven't been able to prepare any recently, here's a set of candidates we haven't yet had time to prepare, but which have most of the needed information. (Also: Learn how to help turn these into first-timers-only issues to help keep welcoming people in!
What's next?
Once you've completed a first-timers-only issue, there are plenty of other challenges we'd love to have your help on.
In "Candidates" above, there are some issues we think would make good first-timers-only issues, but haven't finished formatting. They could make a good second-time contribution!
You're now an expert on being a newcomer!
After finishing a first-timers-only issue, you're uniquely suited to help others make their own first contribution. We'd love to help you welcome another new person into our community! Here are some ways to help:
Create your own first-timers-only issue to welcome others into the project.
Also consider other ways you can support even without coding!
Contributors
This project was made possible by many contributors, including the following GitHub users: