Helping the Open Source Community
Pairing developers with open source
🎉 We’re launching a new site and a newsletter for developers looking to contribute to open-source.
Contributing to open-source
At Clarity Hub, we see a need to bridge developers with open-source issues that they can help solve.
The open-source ecosystem thrives on the contributions from the community. You can build on top of the amazing contributions of others to create apps and tools quicker than ever before. If you find a problem, you can fix it and make a pull-request, giving back to the open-source world. However, it’s much harder to seek out issues discovered by others that you can help with if they don’t affect your workflow directly.
At the same time, the development community is growing and creating a lot of opportunity for growth in the open source world.
The growing development community
Alongside traditional routes, coding bootcamps are opening the doors for a lot of people that would not have gone through the traditional route — getting Computer Science or technology related degree. At Clarity Hub, we’ve met people who were teachers, insurance agents, and assistants who have gone through intense programming bootcamps and are now looking for jobs in a the tech world. An industry that has been historically homogenous is now getting fresh perspectives from diverse group of people. But landing a tech job after graduating is tough, especially for those with limited experience.
It’s hard to land a development job — you need to set yourself apart from the crowd of developers.
Standing out
When we’ve interviewed candidates for junior development positions, what set candidates apart is their Github profile. The social graph on Github is proof that the candidate is interested in development. It shows the level of experience, the quality of work, and actual, real examples of the code that they can produce.
A Github profile is a good indicator of what kind of developer they can expect. A whiteboard exercise might show that they can code, but a Github profile is a better indicator of the real work that they will produce.
What are we doing about it
At Clarity Hub, we’re creating a newsletter for developers to give back to the open-source community. We’re pairing developers with open-source issues so that grads can boost their resumes and contribute to open-source at the same time.
We send you a weekly newsletter with open-source issues that need your help
We send you a weekly list of issues that are looking for active contributions from developers so that you can help fix them and show potential employers your skills.
Our goals are to help developers:
- Contribute — Help out the open source community by finding interesting, contributor-friendly issues.
- Improve — Participate in real-world projects and improve your programming skills.
- Get Hired — Employers are more likely to hire someone who has contributed to open-source!
Interesting JavaScript Issues
We’re focusing on JavaScript issues for now so that we can deliver hand curated issues sent to your inbox every week. While recent code-camp grads might benefit the most, our list is open to any developer with a positive mindset.
