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By Linea Brink Andersen A week ago, I started an Open Source project. I had never done a pull request or merged anything on GitHub. Suddenly I was an Open Source maintainer. In my search for an easily approachable Open Source project, I ended up cre...

May 1, 2018 · 7 min read · freecodecamp.org  
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