mungell/awesome-for-beginners

Awesome for Beginners, titled in the README as Awesome First Pull Request Opportunities, is a curated list of open-source projects that label issues as friendly to newcomers. The README says it was inspired by the First Timers Only blog post and asks maintainers to apply a first-timers-only label to issues they want new contributors to pick up, then add their project to this list. It points readers who are not programmers at a separate list called Awesome for non-programmers, and points readers who want a guided walkthrough at the First Contributions repository. A small note at the top says that all links open in the same tab and suggests using Ctrl-Click or Cmd-Click to open in a new one. The README is generated from a data file. Comments at the top of the file tell visitors not to edit README.md directly: entries belong in data.json, the rendered file follows from a Jinja2 template at README-template.j2, and a CONTRIBUTING.md document explains the process. The page also shows a sponsorship credit to Warp.dev, which the maintainer says was given as a donation to a charity of their choice. A Table of Contents lists the languages and ecosystems covered, including .NET, Angular, Ansible, C, C#, C++, Clojure, CSS, Dart, Elixir, Elm, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Julia, Kotlin, Markdown, MLOps, Perl, PHP, Pug, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Smalltalk, Swift, and TypeScript. Each section is a flat list of projects and a short one-line description, with the issue label maintainers use shown in italics next to the project name. A few examples from the file show what each entry looks like. Under .NET the list names Legerity, Legerity for Uno Platform, and MvvmCross. Under C# it names Cake, the osu! rhythm game, Spectre.Console, and Uno Platform. Under C++ it names electron, F3D, Godot Engine, MiniOB, MoveIt, projectM, Roc Toolkit, TensorFlow, and Yugabyte DB. Someone would use this list when they want to start contributing to open source and need a starting set of projects whose maintainers have signalled, through a label, that they will help a new contributor land their first patch.