How to join the open source world of GitHub

I have always wanted to join the open source project, but because no one to guide the process, read a lot on the internet, basically said a general, if you are a fledgling person, then, I will submit an open source code for example, to teach you to enter the open source world.

1, first login to the https://github.com platform to register a own account, this process I will not demonstrate

2, then in the upper left part of the name of an open source project, I chose Jvalidator, enter search.

3, on the search results page, find the following items as shown in the figure, click the project name.

4, at this time, you have entered the Rinh/jvalidator Project homepage, click the Fork button in the upper right-hand corner, pull this item into your account, you can join the project

5, at this time, the page has been jumped to your account under the Jvalidator project, click on the lower right copy button, the address will be copied down, later useful

6, at this point, you need to install a GIT client tool, of course, a lot of it, we demo it with Http://msysgit.github.io, to this page to download the tool, select the latest version of it, download to your computer, and then install it.