For the past seven years, DigitalOcean has hosted Hacktoberfest: a community-wide celebration of open source.
Hacktoberfest® is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or a company of any size, you can help drive the growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.
Every year in October, Digital Ocean and GitHub team up for an online event that celebrates open-source. Open-Source is one of the most growing areas in development these years. Also, it has made it possible for beginners to grow and develop their skills as a programmer/developer. On the brighter side, you get some really cool freebies as well! Let’s talk in detail about this event.
First and foremost, you need to register for Hacktoberfest, for that you need a GitHub account, if you don’t have one, chill we’ve got you covered. Go to this link and create an account for free!
Once your GitHub account is created, you can register for Hacktoberfest here! After registering for Hacktoberfest, you are officially a participant of Hacktoberfest! Now, you just need to start contributing to any projects out there on GitHub.
Here’s how –
First, learn about GitHub and pull requests if you don’t know about them.
Once, you have learned about pull requests and GitHub, you need to make 4 pull requests to any open-source projects which are a part of the Hacktoberfest topic. pull requests reported as spam or invalid would not be eligible.
After you make your pull requests, contribute by finding bugs and remove them, and finally pushing them into the repository. Also, you can check your progress on the Hacktoberfest website!
What I Learned From Hacktoberfest
Participating in Hacktoberfest 2020, Making 4+ pull requests made me realize that everything I've learned over the years is not going in vain, And when my first pull request got accepted, The feeling was amazing. I learned that no one is less, If provided with the right platform and right resources, Each individual can do miracles.
The event is a great opportunity to grow as a developer and improve your skills, also if you make 4 successful pull requests you are eligible to get a really cool T-Shirt.
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