https://blog.jandroegehoff.de/tags/open-source/ Recent content in Open-Source on Jan's Blog Hugo en Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.jandroegehoff.de/posts/guide-to-open-source/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.jandroegehoff.de/posts/guide-to-open-source/ <h1 id="a-burned-out-maintainers-guide-on-how-to-maybe-contribute-to-open-source-perhaps">a burned out maintainers guide on how to maybe contribute to open source (perhaps)</h1> <p>I&rsquo;ve been participating in open source for close to a decade and many times lacked information that could have helped me or got information that didn&rsquo;t prepare me for reality, this is not a real guide just a incoherent string of thought that is based on my personal experience, view everything written with subjectivity.</p> <h2 id="step-0-do-something-else-first">Step 0: do something else first</h2> <p>No seriously, if you are fresh start off making something independent and just put it out there. This doesn&rsquo;t just mean software projects either, you can go ahead and write, draw, translate some text you found somewhere, ANYTHING, publishing this somewhere public is even better because it gives you a chance to smell the room.</p>