03. Join Community Channels and Forums Once, you have found some applications that you like or you have questions for then you can join the forums and channels all of the open source projects have. The great thing is that these open source projects also in turn again use open source blog, forum or channel software ;) Famous projects for this are  Discourse Flarum Bettermode Talkyard     For lots of projects there are ways to join them by joining there discord channels for instance or on there message boards like discourse  or on other forums Do this!\