I am looking out for freelancing assignments and contracts. They want to see my github and Linked in
account. Since my github account is empty I want to contribute to some 2/3 open source projects for free to show off to recruiters. If anyone needs any free contribution in their github projects please let me know.
Contributing to open source for free is easier than landing clients. But your time is better spent looking for clients or just putting some code you have already written on Github. Just putting some code on Github lets recruiters check a box if that's all they are doing.<p>If a recruiter is looking for evidence of specific technical competence on Github (Java, machine learning, Angular, etc.), no matter what projects you work on, your work probably won't reflect the specific skill. There are just too many possible skills.<p>Anyway, working for free is about the worst approach to a career as a contractor/consultant/freelancer. Selling is hard and necessary.
You can search GitHub for open issues that need help: <a href="https://github.com/search/advanced" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/search/advanced</a><p>The commonly used label is "help wanted".<p>You can dig further. Some ideas:<p>* Issues which are not to old.<p>* Issues in repos with an average amount of stars (~100).<p>* Issues with a limited amount of comments.<p>* Issues of users which project/coding style you like.<p>...