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For those of you who contribute to open source software, how did you originally start?
I'm quite new to the space - I'd really love to start contributing in some way, but I'm quite overwhelmed and I've got no idea where to even begin 
@Bennytek
My first FOSS contribution was to Habitica—I created v2 of their Chat Extension as well as porting it to Firefox.
@benjaminhollon Wow, I didn't even realise Habitica was open source until now - that's super cool!
Thank you :)
@Bennytek
Yeah! That was my first exposure to open source, before I even realized it was a wider thing or cared about it outside of Habitica.
@Bennytek For me, it was fixing bugs in open-source libraries used by the product I was working on at the time.
@skaffman Fixing bugs seems like a pretty good first step honestly - thank you!
@Bennytek take a deep breath :)
Ask in the group of people that works on a thing you wanna contribute to "somebody needs help with something totally trivial like ... (whatever you think you can figure out personally i spell like crap, so its awesome if somebody could fix that for me etc)
dont be afraid to make mistakes
get your feet wet, usuaylly theres a "beginner issue" or something tagged in a project
go kick ass :)
@mortendk Thank you! I'll definitely be taking a look around - thank you for the encouragement too!
@Bennytek Pick something you use and like. Lurk in the community to get a feel for it. Help others who are asking questions. If you don't know the answer to the question either then help research and answer. If you see the documentation doesn't include that thing, add it. If you can contribute code that's good, you can ask the technical people for help and guidance and explain you'd like to do the work, but also realise not every contribution needs to be code. Other things are valuable too.
@suprjami Thank you! I think that point about other things being valuable too is super important :)