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I use open source self hosted software everyday. I love the community and I would love to be able to contribute to some of these projects.

As far as code goes, I basically no nothing about how it works. I see the development section of the repos I use and again, I've go no idea how it works.

How can I teach myself how to offer small improvements to the projects I use?

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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Do you know any open source efforts who will train you how to write documentation in exchange for committing to volunteerimg a certain amount? I would be interested.