In this module, you aimed to participate in the open source community by learning how to help and contribute to open source projects through GitHub.

You learned how to find projects to contribute to on GitHub. You discovered how to get familiar with a project and its guidelines. You learned to use issue tracking and labels to identify tasks to work on. You also found out that, through GitHub Sponsors, you can financially support your favorite open source projects and contributors.

After identifying where you could help, you learned how to use GitHub to make your first contribution and submit a pull request. You understood the importance of writing a concise description of the changes made to a project: using the present imperative, explaining the what and why, not the how. These best practices increase the chances that your changes will be accepted.

Finally, you learned how to communicate effectively with project maintainers and how to perform code reviews.