Collaborating with Git

Git is an awesome collaboration technology, and GitHub is an incredibly effective way to develop projects together. GitHub provides a place for anyone in the world with internet access to share their thoughts and code for free. We know how to use Git and some of the basic collaboration steps using GitHub, but how do we join and contribute to a project? Sure, we would like to give back to these open source projects that have given us so much, but how do we get started? 

In this section, we'll look at some of the things to know about software-development collaboration using Git and GitHub:

• Start small: One of the most important things to understand is the role we can play within a team. We might be awesome at network engineering but a mediocre Python developer. There are plenty of things we can do that don't involve being a highly-skilled developer. Don't be afraid to start small, documentation and testing are two good ways to get your foot in the door as a contributor...