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First Timers Only GitHub’s Guide to Open Source What Motivates a Developer to Contribute to Open-Source Software? Review: List of Beginner-Friendly Projects (select your language of choice, also search for label:first-timers-only) Review: Call for Code: Open Source for Good (follow the “Get started” button)

Things I want to know more about

• The article is about GitHub, a platform where millions of open source projects are hosted and shared.
• Open source software is free to use and explore, and anyone can contribute to improve it.
• GitHub helps developers collaborate, review code, track bugs, manage workflows, and secure code.
• GitHub also supports open source communities with features like GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages, and more.
• GitHub is not open source itself, meaning its source code is not publicly available or licensed.
• GitHub’s source code is encrypted and hosted on its own servers.
• Some developers prefer open source alternatives to GitHub, such as GitLab, Gitea, SourceHut, etc.
• GitHub is owned by Microsoft since 2018, but operates independently