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Up for Grabs: Projects which have curated tasks for new contributors

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This is excellent, I will add my project soon.

Just a small idea: add section with projects which offer rewards for contributors. That should cover:

* users who will pay for bugfixing

* some sort of small rewards such as bug contests

* scholarship (Google Summer of Code | etc...)

* non financial rewards such as conference passes

I like the idea of that, but will many places offer rewards for bugs that are on the easy end like the ones this site catalogues?

FYI: https://www.bountysource.com/

It would be interesting to see some type of collaboration between similar sites, including:

- http://24pullrequests.com/

- https://www.codemontage.com/

- http://www.codetriage.com/

- http://www.lookingforpullrequests.com/

- https://bountify.co/

- https://www.bountysource.com/

- http://yourfirstpr.github.io/

- http://socialcoder.org/

I'm curious about the language culture represented. Of the top three TIOBE languages, there are only 6 projects for C and C++, and none at all for Java.

The site seems oriented towards web and windows.

Worthwhile noting that LibreOffice have been doing this for some time now. See:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks

The table that is supposed to list some "random easy hacks" looks to be empty.

I really like the idea here. Interesting how many of the projects are in .net, I wonder if that's just the authors language or if there really are a disproportionately higher number of .net projects well organized for accepting new contributors.

This is likely a historical thing (the curators have a background in .NET and web development, and have lots of contacts in the .NET OSS space) but not something we want to limit ourselves too.

I think working with the sites listed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10837009 or even GitHub itself could help expand this idea out even further.

I really wanted openhatch to take off, but it seems it never did.

Some sort of subscription (a daily digest?) for new tasks in a category would be nice.

I second this, however I'd be looking more for a weekly digest, so having some option would be nice.

On a related note, Bugs Ahoy is a similar project for filtering issues in Mozilla projects: http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/ there's 'Simple bugs' facet at the very bottom. E.g. simple and unassigned bugs http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/?unowned=1&simple=1

This is essentially exactly what I've been wanting. I really want to start doing some real world work on open source projects, because I feel they'll be great experience. However the projects I'd love to work on (TOR among others) are just so dense and impenetrable that I don't even know how to figure out how to get started.

This will be really valuable, thanks.

Also in this space: https://openhatch.org/

Great!

We made a similar service for civic tech projects, pulling from a long list of volunteer groups and non-profits. It only shows the "help wanted" labels. http://www.codeforamerica.org/geeks/civicissues

I was just about to start a project for this! How did you handle Git's API rate limiting? I was going to be lazy and update my listings every minute with a node scheduler.

They're doing client-side requests and caching pretty heavily in local storage: https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net/blob/gh-pag...

And I'd love to move this out to something more flexible (and powerful) - see the demo https://github.com/shiftkey/up-for-grabs-api-demo

If I've never contributed before, How should I go about finding issues I can help with?

It would be cool if there was a filter for difficulty.

I hadn't contributed until I found this site a month ago. I looked around in a language I was most comfortable in and then checked out some of the projects. Most of the projects on the list had tags for easy or bite-sized on their issue list.

I've been teaching myself python for a while now but wasn't sure where to go once I was done with tutorials.

Hoping to use this to develop some C# skills as well.

There are filters. They just aren't listed.

I clicked the JS tab to view some issues, and in the left-hand column, I've seen 'newbie-friendly', 'beginner-friendly', and 'easy'.

Awesome. Thank you!

you could start by checking the issues section Github page, one example for AngJobs

https://github.com/victorantos/AngJobs/issues

When I was an intern, more or less, God how awful I was, LOL. I would curse my worst enemy with as many amateur helpers as I could find.

I am in charge of the 100,000 lines of code, myself. It is managable by one person.

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