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The past year has been great, albeit frustrating at times. I went through a learning curve while contributing to Grafana, but I think a lot of the lessons learned are universal to Open Source Software. With some reflrection, here's what I
The past year has been great, albeit frustrating at times. I went through a learning curve while contributing to Grafana, but I think a lot of the lessons learned are universal to Open Source Software. With some reflrection, here's what I learned:


### Take a moment to look around
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### Contribute in the way you can
Especially coming to Grafana on the front-end/UX side, my original contributions were mockups and clickable prototypes. At first, I was apprehensive that I wasnt committing code. I've since realized that a big whole can be the ideation and germination phases of a project.
Especially coming to Grafana on the front-end/UX side, my original contributions were mockups and clickable prototypes. At first, I was apprehensive that I wasnt committing code. I've since realized that a big hole can be the ideation and germination phases of a project.

Bringing some UX best practices into Grafana, I was able to flesh out the New User Registrations process in a flow chart before a single line of code was written. It changed form a few times, and I think it saved a good chunk of actual development/refactoring in the grand scheme.

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