Get started with open source projects
Whether you are looking to take on climate change, natural disasters, COVID-19, or other pressing social issues, your code has a vital role to play. Brush up on your cloud skills while making a real difference and get involved with these open source projects supported by the Linux Foundation. Through your contributions, you could be recognized as a Community Champion.
Next steps
Step 1: Join the community
Join our community of over 300,000 developers to build new cloud skills, meet like-minded devs, and contribute to tech for good open source projects. Get a free IBM Cloud account and receive the latest updates on project deployments and new resources to boost your development.
Step 2: Pick a project
Whether you want to help farmers understand their water usage or link first responders to communities when connectivity fails, we have the open source projects for you. There are many ways you can get involved, from contributing to the core project or developing integrations and customizations.
Step 3: Find resources and collaborators
Get started with the latest open source technologies, whether that is AI, IoT, or data science. Find tutorials, code patterns, and more so you can start making meaningful contributions now. Meet collaborators and brainstorm ideas on our Slack channel.
Step 4: Make your contribution and share with your network
Start contributing to the project of your choice. Issues can be created and pull requests are made within the project GitHub repos themselves. In the spirit of open source, share your ideas and code with your network. We are always looking for content for the Call for Code Digest. Tell us your story for a chance to be featured.