When I first ventured into the world of open source contributions, I was immediately overwhelmed. Until that point, I had not fully considered the all of the work that went into creating and maintaining the tools that I used in my projects every day.
All of the github issues, the comments, the waffle boards, and the first-timer tags made my head spin. I dug through repos looking for the just the right sized project with just the right amount of activity and just the right code base. Turns out, it didn’t exist.
I found myself missing the human aspect of development after a few hours of scanning projects. I wanted to talk to someone about why what they were building was important, what needed to be fixed on it and maybe even learn about who they were in the process. I returned to Google with a new search in mind: local open source. The first search result returned the Meetup page for Code for Denver and it just so happened that their next project night was the next day. I resolved to go and try to contribut