NumFOCUS

If you need some help understanding how to contribute to open source projects, check out GitHub's guide to #OSS https://opensource.guide/  3/n

If you have a particular project you want to contribute to (or once you identify one), also check out that project's contributor guide. 4/n

There are links to NumFOCUS project contributor guides on our website. https://www.numfocus.org/open-source-projects/ … Click on "Contribute Code to [Project]" 5/n

You can also search a project's GitHub repo for #Hacktoberfest labeled issues. Here's the @ProjectJupyter list: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter.github.io/labels/Hacktoberfest … 6/n

Here's the @nteractio list of #Hacktoberfest issues: https://github.com/nteract/nteract/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Ahacktoberfest … 7/n

Also look at projects that might not have implemented #Hacktoberfest labeling but still have beginner-friendly issues. For example... 8/n

@Matplotlib has "New-Contributor-Friendly" and "Difficulty:Easy" labels on issues https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/labels/new-contributor-friendly … but no #Hacktoberfest label (9/n)

And finally, if you get stuck or have questions, reach out to the project community for help! Most projects have forums or lists... 10/n