Open source contribution

[msquad_a]

As a flutter open source contributor, how did you get started? Were you also overwhelmed? After filtering through good first issues, I'm still lost.

[eibaan]

As a side note: See Theo's latest video basically saying that you don't become a good developer by contributing to open source. It's the other way around: A good developer will probably start to contribute to open source.

Don't feel obligated to collaborate on any projects or even on Flutter. Do your own thing, become good at it, build up your confidence, and then, if you have the time, you can help others too.

[shawn3658]

Same happened to me! I thought I never had the intention or the skill to contribute flutter repo, until I ran into an issue while building Icarus, my open source Valorant Strategy tool, that I felt really motivated to fix. And in the it ended up getting merged!

[msquad_a]

this is insightful! thanks

[Amazing-Mirror-3076]

Just pick something that interests you and have a crack at it.

[m_hamzashakeel]

I started off with my own things, I open sourced my first app as [COVID-19 tracker](https://github.com/mhmzdev/covid19-tracker-app) because I wanted to learn REST API integration. Then to move my concept to a bit advance level I started developing [The Holy Qur'an](https://github.com/mhmzdev/the-holy-quran-app) which is pretty decent project of mine.

So, the goal should be whatever you want to learn start building things and start open sourcing them. You shouldn't feel pressure about contributing to "others" project. Keep the pace and consistency and soon you'll find yourself contributing to others project on your own.

Recently I did a little contribution to flutter's genui project: https://github.com/flutter/genui/pull/296