Hacktoberfest 2022 is almost upon us!
Whether you are new to Hacktoberfest or a seasoned veteran, welcome!
If you're new to Hacktoberfest or open source, don't fret! The community is here to support you! Worried about that first pull request (PR)? I was, too, when I first started contributing to open source. Turns out my first PR wasn't that great, but that's OK!
Whether you're new or not, I have you covered. I gave a talk in 2020 for Digital Ocean that is for maintainers and contributors, including first-time contributors.
I talk about conventional comments in that talk. If you're curious, I also gave a lightning talk about them.
My Virtual Coffee community also did a great Preptember stream that you should check out!
@eddiejaoude ran a great Twitter Space today with folks contributing lots of great tips for open source and Hacktoberfest. Check it out!
Remember to be kind to maintainers and fellow contributors. Now go have fun and contribute!
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Top comments (15)
What I think is that, in your tweet you intentionally misspelled "amazing PR" as "amamzing PR" as new open source contributors could know that if you're new to this try to look for typos and these type of mistakes and fix them :)
That was where I once began with Open Source. All the Best to all.
Hi Nick. Since you're listed as a tag moderator for the hacktoberfest tag, I thought you'd be good to bring attention to this, especially since this post also concerns Hacktoberfest. The page for the tag, dev.to/t/hacktoberfest, claims that it is specifically for Hacktoberfest 2021, rather than more generally.
Updated it! Thanks for pointing it out!
You're welcome
Thanks for sharing all these resources! This is my first year participating in Hacktoberfest as a contributor and helping the community I run participate, so I'm excited and diving into everything I can! :)
I'm new to both open-source and hacktoberfest.
In hacktoberfest, I hope to make my first contribution to open-source.
Thank you for the mention!!
I'm ready for Hacktoberfest to start. I need to find some projects to help. Virtual Coffee has been a great place to seek projects the last two years and always have great tips during Preptember.
Let's go!
Brace yourself, soldiers! Soon shall we see open doors into contributions to open source.
Hi Nick!
Have you seen HackSquad? 🚀
hacksquad.dev