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Posted on Sep 17, 2020

Hacktoberfest 2020 — Who's looking for contributors?

#hacktoberfest #opensource #discuss #contributorswanted

Update 10/2/20: If you’d like your project to be eligible for Hacktoberfest contributions, you must classify it as a Hacktoberfest Project.

Hacktoberfest 2020 is coming up on October 1st!

Starting now through the end of Hacktoberfest, maintainers can drop links to/information on their projects in the comments below. The goal? To find helpful contributors seeking projects to improve in the name of Hacktoberfest!

Participants can use this thread as a reference for projects that are actively seeking contributions 🎉

P.S. Maintainers: Wondering how you can get your repos in tip-top shape for contributors? Take a look at this article.

P.P.S. If you'd like to find a way to lend your expertise to this year's group of open source newbies participating in Hacktoberfest, Raise.dev's Hacktoberfest Helpdesk is the perfect opportunity! You can volunteer for paired programming and Q&A sessions via Twitch and more! A few of the DEV/Forem team will be helping out at this helpdesk — hope to see you there!

Top comments (211)

Amruta Ranade • Sep 17 '20 • Edited

Code newbies and new open source contributors -- help us build our repository of CockroachDB To-Do apps: github.com/cockroachdb/cockroachdb...

Docs enthusiasts -- help us improve our docs: github.com/cockroachdb/docs/issues...

Go developers -- help us improve our code: github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/i...

Detailed contributing guide: github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/b...

Yash_Jaiswal • Sep 17 '20

Thanks for sharing the resources. I would like to participate in this challenge and will start my journey of open-source. I have some experience with flutter and I am studying core java now. I will do everything I am capable of doing.

lex • Oct 15 '21

Thanks for sharing your repo, Amruta! Just checking - is it okay for several folks to contribute to/open pull requests for each language-specific to-do issue, or are you accepting one PR per issue?

Thank you!

Obioma Osuagwu • Sep 25 '20

I am excited to participate in the Cockroachdb challenge.
I hope to turn it in on time.
Thanks for the encouragement
Regards
@justobioma

Katie Raby • Oct 1 '20

Thank you for posting this! I'm delighted to have contributed to open source for the first time this evening. Thanks for the opportunity.

Amruta Ranade • Oct 1 '20

Congratulations on your first contribution! Merged the PR!!

Jaye Hernandez • Sep 17 '20 • Edited

Always on the look out for new contributors over at Letra! A beginner friendly repo perfect to start your first contribution to open source.

Tech Stack: Vue.js and Node.js

jayehernandez / letra-extension

Passively learn a new language every time you open a new tab

Hey there! This repository is currently on VACATION MODE 🏝

⚠️ Commenting and opening issues or PRs won't be allowed for a while. You can still fork the repo, leave a star, and use the extension. Just taking a break from maintaining this repo, back soon. For any urgent concerns, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter. Thank you!

Passively learn a new language every time you open a new tab.

Download Chrome Extension

✨ Features

New word everyday
Listen to the word in the chosen language
New inspirational quote about learning
Dark Interface

🌎 Supported Languages

🇿🇦 Afrikaans
🇸🇦 Arabic
🇧🇩 Bangla
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese
🇨🇳 Chinese (Simplified)
🇹🇼 Chinese (Traditional)
🇭🇷 Croatian
🇳🇱 Dutch
🇵🇭 Filipino
🇫🇷 French
🇩🇪 German
🇬🇷 Greek
🇮🇳 Hindi
🇮🇹 Italian
🇮🇩 Indonesian
🇯🇵 Japanese
🇰🇷 Korean
🇵🇱 Polish
🇷🇺 Russian
🇪🇸 Spanish
🇸🇪 Swedish
🇮🇳 Tamil
🇹🇭 Thai

…

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Vaibhav Khulbe • Sep 18 '20

💯% recommended for beginners 🔥

Jaye Hernandez • Sep 18 '20

Thanks Vaibhav!! 🤩

Anna • Sep 26 '20

This is so cool! Despite being a software developer for the last few years, this year would be my first year contributing to Hacktoberfest and your project looks so open-source beginner-friendly, I'm already looking at how to contribute!

Jaye Hernandez • Sep 28 '20

Thank you for the kind words, Anna! Looking forward to your contribution this Hacktoberfest!

Rahil Sarvaiya • Sep 18 '20

This is my first shot at Hacktoberfest, looking forward to contribute here 🙌🏻

Jaye Hernandez • Sep 19 '20

Will be waiting for your contribution! 🥳

dennislwm • Sep 23 '20

Hi,
Nice work. I was wondering if this extension could be customized for other text, such as quote of the day. Will it be difficult to modify the code or is the code modular?

Sorry, if this is off-topic. Rgds

Jaye Hernandez • Sep 28 '20

Sorry for the late reply, haven't been able to visit DEV in a while. Technically this is possible, code is quite modular! But for the quote of the day, since it's a language learning app, I'd like for the quotes to be solely related to that for now. :)

Maria Belan-Crawford • Oct 30 '20

This is a great project!! Definitely beginner friendly. Thanks for posting it here!

Jaye Hernandez • Nov 2 '20

Thank you for contributing as well! 😊

Agustín • Sep 28 '20 • Edited

Alo! If you are interested in React Native or not, you are more than welcome to contribute to this new project we are doing to manage Styles.

We have different kinds of issues to work on: code, docs, tests and more.

rootstrap / react-native-use-styles

A classy approach to manage your react native styles.

A classy approach.

Did you ever want to organize your styles properly? This library contains an easy to use API that lets you organize your styles in a classy way.

Installation

npm install react-native-use-styles --save

Usage

Using styles

import useStyles from './my-namespaced-styles';
const component = () ⇒ {
  const s = useStyles();
  return (
    <Text styles={s`.global .namespaced`}>
      Hello World
    </Text>
  );
}

Note that we are classy now, and nobody would deny it. Next we'll define our .global and .namespaced style to use them in our components as we are doing in this example.

Global styles

global-styles.js

import { GlobalStyles } from 'react-native-use-styles';

GlobalStyles({
  global: 'flex:1 fx:dir:row'
});

We are using aliases or shortcuts to define our styles. This is equivalent to do:

import { GlobalStyles } from

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David Dal Busco • Sep 18 '20

DeckDeckGo is an open source editor for presentations.

If you can give us a hand, that would be awesome 💪.

I flagged some hacktoberfest features accessible for different levels, from Documentation to CSS, JavaScript, Stencil, Workbox or Markdown.

deckgo / deckdeckgo

The web open source editor for presentations

DeckDeckGo - The open source web editor for presentations. 🚀

Create a PWA presentation using either our online editor or our developer kit with HTML or Markdown.

Cherry on the cake 🍒🎂 DeckDeckGo comes with a Progressive Web App to remote control your slides. 📱

Getting Started

Start your new presentation using our 👉 online Editor 👈 or as a developer by following the quick Getting Started guide.

Documentation

The developers' documentation is available online at docs.deckdeckgo.com.

Contributing

Are you interested to contribute to our open source project? That would be awesome 👍 Have a look to our contributing guide to get started.

Progressive Web Apps

Project	Online	Links	Changelog
Studio	deckdeckgo.com	README	CHANGELOG
Remote control	deckdeckgo.app	README	CHANGELOG
Documentation	docs.deckdeckgo.com	README	CHANGELOG
Demo	demo.deckdeckgo.com	Repo	CHANGELOG

Web Components

Project	Package	Version	Links

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WangXiangUSTC • Sep 24 '20 • Edited

Hello everyone, welcome to participate in the Chaos Mesh® project. Chaos Mesh® is a cloud-native Chaos Engineering platform that orchestrates chaos on Kubernetes environments. In addition, Chaos Mesh® is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project. You can visit chaos-mesh.org for more details.

We prepare some issues for Hacktoberfest, include:

Code enhancement
Documents
Test cases

You can look at this Hacktoberfest issue list and choose one you are interested in to complete. If you have any questions, you can join Slack channel to discuss.

Bruno Vezoli • Sep 28 '20

github.com/rootstrap/exception_hunter written in Ruby and always looking for new contributions/ideas 😉

Derek Crosson • Oct 1 '20

Hey, Bruno! Can I just pick up an issue and make a PR or should I add a comment saying that I'm working on it? I wanna make a contribution this weekend.

Bruno Vezoli • Oct 1 '20

Sure just comment that you’ll be working on it and if you need any help just ping me!

Derek Crosson • Oct 2 '20

Awesome! Thanks, Bruno :)

Kalil de Lima • Sep 28 '20 • Edited

At Django Drip Campaigns we are always looking for new contributors!

This package allows an easy filtering for sending automated email to your app users

github.com/rootstrap/django-drip-c...

mpisani • Oct 1 '20

Hello, if you like machine learning and contribute to open source, here at Rootstrap we have a couple of projects with some registered issues.

Those projects are:

We hope you like them and start to work with them. Thanks!

Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Sep 17 '20

#100DaysOfCloud needs your help

Our community is about providing support and a personal network when learning cloud computing. We have multiple open-source projects that need volunteers.

100DaysOfCloud / 100DaysOfCloud

The Challenge

Read about the challenge and register at #100DaysOfCloud.com
Join the Discord Channel
Copy the 100DaysOfCloud/100DaysOfCloud Journey Template
Use the Micro, Short or Long Day Journey Template and document your day-to-day progress.
Update your main README to link back to your Day Journey article
If you need ideas go to #100DaysOfCloudIdeas

How to use this template:

Fill in your details where you see this icon ✍️ We have provided a sample Day Journey entry staring at 0. You can delete this example.

[✍️ Your Name]'s Cloud Journey

[✍️ Introduce yourself]

[✍️ Tell us why you started this challenge]

[✍️ Tell us where you want to be at the end of the challenge]

Stepping out the door

☁️ 1 > My First Day
☁️ 2 &gt
☁️ 3 &gt
☁️ 4 &gt
☁️ 5 &gt…

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Join our Discord and message us in the #100-days-volunteers channel

Robin Gagnon • Sep 17 '20 • Edited

Anyone is welcome to contribute to vimcolorschemes.com 🎉

The work is mostly frontend, but there is stuff to do on the data fetching side of the project for more advanced users. I'm also looking for feedback and improvements to the documentation.

Frontend stack:

Gatsby (React)
JavaScript
Scss
MongoDB
Jest

Data is fetched and generated with the following techs:

Python
VimScript
MongoDB

There are already some issues that can be worked on right away, and I'm preparing more for October 1st.

reobin / vimcolorschemes

Find the best vim color schemes around

Find the best vim color schemes around

Welcome 🎉

vimcolorschemes is a small constellation of projects working on the common goal of building the ultimate resource for vim users to find the perfect color scheme for their development environment.

The focus here is always on the content. The simple design of the website makes the color schemes the focal point of every page. Speed and accessibility are also part of the core mission of vimcolorschemes.

Key features 🚀

Daily updated list of hundreds of vim color scheme repositories
Awesome vim (or arrows) key bindings to quickly navigate through the whole site

Get Involved

vimcolorschemes is aimed to be a collaborative project, and you are invited to help. All types of involvement are welcome!

Developers, check out the development guide to start writing code and contribute.

Issues

Bugs and feature requests are welcome. Make sure to follow the issue…

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Jérémie Astor • Sep 18 '20

Gonna check this repo 😄

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jayehernandez / letra-extension

Passively learn a new language every time you open a new tab

Download Chrome Extension

✨ Features

🌎 Supported Languages

rootstrap / react-native-use-styles

A classy approach to manage your react native styles.

A classy approach.

Installation

Usage

Using styles

Global styles

deckgo / deckdeckgo

The web open source editor for presentations

Table of contents

Getting Started

Documentation

Contributing

Progressive Web Apps

Web Components

100DaysOfCloud / 100DaysOfCloud

The Challenge

How to use this template:

[✍️ Your Name]'s Cloud Journey

Stepping out the door

reobin / vimcolorschemes

Find the best vim color schemes around

Welcome 🎉

Key features 🚀

Get Involved

Issues

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