How to become an Open Source Contributor
Contributing to Open Source Software (OSS) was something i had thought about a few times before but never quite made it a priority. Fortunately, things fell into place over the past few months and i made a few open source contributions in 2022. It was a great learning and enjoyable experience. In this blog, I will share some tips and lessons learned in hope of motivating you to also become an OSS contributor. 1. Find an Open Source project that aligns with your interests or you use at work. For me it was the Opentelemetry project and in particular the opentelemetry-demo app within it. I am passionate about the Observability domain as i think it's the key to improve reliability and availability of software applications that we all use and rely on in our day to day lives (news, banking , map mobile apps and web sites etc.). Opentelemetry project is an OpenSource project within the Observability domain backed by multiple observability vendor (AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Datadog,