My First Step 👣 into the World of Open-Source 👨‍💻

This is a submission for the 2024 Hacktoberfest Writing challenge: Contributor Experience

Intro

October, the month of Coding and Spooky events was filled with a lot of new experience for me. Being new to vast growing world of Open-Source, I came to understand the depth and importance of these contributions shape of present Tech-Era. In this fast-pace growing age of Technology, contribution to Open-Source is what helps us keep with the in latest technological trends and help in the collective growth of new and amazing application from Imagination to Reality.

HacktoberFest 2024

I came to know about the HacktoberFest from a LinkedIn post and wanted to contribute with my present skill to make a difference.
I joined the HacktoberFest on 4th of October and hopped onto their Discord Server. That was my first step into the world of Open Source.

This was the turning point for me as I just kept on exploring the beautiful and truly amazing projects/repos made by all the Talented Maintainers. Being a tech-enthusiast from Python and Web Development **background, I searched and tried to find the Projects I can improve with my **Tech-Magic✨. And I was Successful, I made my first contribution into the realm of Opensource on 6th of October.

Story of PRs

On 25th of October, at 12:05 PM IST all my PRs were successfully reviewed and accepted as a Contribution under HacktoberFest 2024.

With a Total of 7 Successful PRs I marked my first Virtual Event.
Here's a link for all the projects I worked on:

• https://github.com/brgkdm/DayZen-good-first-issue/pull/25
• https://github.com/zero-to-mastery/ascii-art/pull/200
• https://github.com/Kavya-24/Snippets/pull/431
• https://github.com/nightmare-tech/PWD_Vault/pull/25
• https://github.com/PriyaGhosal/BuddyTrail/pull/689
• https://github.com/ajay-dhangar/algo/pull/790
• https://github.com/SpreadSheets600/Password-Manager/pull/9
• https://github.com/UTSAVS26/PyVerse/pull/678
• https://github.com/PriyaGhosal/BuddyTrail/pull/988
• https://github.com/c0sm0void/ReVot/pull/94

Other Notable Events

October was truly a Month of new Experiences for Me. I came to learn about a lot of new technologies such as React, Firebase, etc.

Apart from HacktoberFest 2024, I event took an Active part in another Open-source program : GSSOC extd 2024 I made 6 successful PRs under GSSOC program and event completed their Postman API Challenge.
Know more about it on:

And in the last but not least, I joined my _First Hackathon _ in this amazing and thrilled month of October !! It was a 3-day long Online Hackathon organized by Team @Hack49. I with my team built a Project "ReEarth" to address the topic of "Waste Management"
Know more about it on :

Wrap - Up

With this, I wrap up my Journey into the amazing Tech-sphere of Open source this October! If you have suggestions for new events, projects, or communities I should join next, feel free to ping me—I’d love to connect and hear your thoughts.

Happy coding, and here’s to many more open-source adventures ahead!