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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Make something great: Become an open source contributor

Unlock your potential and discover the rewarding journey of becoming an open source contributor, no matter your skill level.

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My first contribution to Bootstrap was a tiny line of CSS. It was a no-brainer to merge, but the feeling of seeing that bit of code in the project’s codebase was unreal and addictive. You may think that open source is not for you. After all, it has always been a developer-dominant ecosystem….

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