Get a fix into an open project The Open Counter
Contribute a change to an open-source project run by a community or a nonprofit, and get it accepted by its own maintainers. You paste the link and write 200 words on what changed.
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- In detail
- Gets a contribution merged by the maintainers of an openly licensed project run by a community or a nonprofit foundation, one they do not control; pastes the merged link and commit hash; writes 200 words on what changed
- What you leave with
- Piece page
- Who confirms it
- The project's own maintainers accepted it. One student at another college opens the public link and types what they find.
- What goes on your résumé
- Projects: Open-source contribution to a Python data library: fixed a date-parsing bug in its CSV reader; merged by the project's maintainers, October 2026
An example. Yours will say what you did.
Not for here: structures, pressure systems, mains electricity, vehicles, medical devices, weapons, or advice to a real person on law, tax, medicine, engineering or investments.
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Before you start
You own what you make here. If you made it for a class, a lab or an employer, someone else may have a claim on it, so leave it out. You do this unpaid and by choice, and you do not work for Tillyard. You are keeping a record of something you chose to do.