Opening the Source of Open Source
This blog post was originally published on the Redis developer website here.
Preface by Suze Shardlow, Developer Community Manager at Redis:
Lara Aasem is a backend software engineer based in Cairo, Egypt. For Hacktoberfest, she contributed an enhancement to Kaboom, which is one of our demo apps: an escape room game. This is her story.
Open source has always simultaneously fascinated and daunted me. As a backend engineer with a background in sociology, the fact that our world is powered by software built out of empathy, a desire to improve our collective experience, and genuine love of craft—rather than profit—seemed upliftingly radical to me. The open source community’s codes of conduct, care for all involved, and emphasis on learning drew me in, but I was still intimidated by it. How do I even start contributing significantly to projects I know nothing about?