hacktoberfest

Where coders of all skill levels come together to help open source projects thrive ... while earning cool swag!

This is a great way to get your feet wet, if you are new!

Official info

"Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software. Each October, open source maintainers give new contributors extra attention as they guide developers through their first pull requests on GitHub." - digital ocean / github

Rules

To qualify for the official limited edition Hacktoberfest shirt, you must register and make four pull requests (PRs) between October 1-31 (in any time zone). PRs can be made to any public repo on GitHub, not only the ones with issues labeled Hacktoberfest. If a maintainer reports your pull request as spam or behavior not in line with the project’s code of conduct, you will be ineligible to participate. This year, the first 50,000 participants who successfully complete the challenge will earn a T-shirt.

How to contribute?

Get registered (in the Fall - October): https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/

Get educated :

• https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/how-to-contribute-to-open-source
• https://github.com/OpenSourceHelpCommunity/Getting-Started-With-Contributing-to-Open-Sources
• (a working simulation!) https://github.com/danthareja/contribute-to-open-source
• (a bot that helps you!) https://github.com/hoodiehq/first-timers-bot
• (a community that helps you!) https://github.com/OpenSourceHelpCommunity

Find projects to contribute

New coders - this is a great way to learn!

Start here! https://github.com/programmicon/how-to-contribute-to-open-source

Get to know Git

• Great tutorial on how to use git to create your first pull request https://github.com/acmbvp/Hacktoberfest

Specific repos:

• https://github.com/OperationCode/START_HERE
• (list is divided into programming languages!) https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners

or for the full git user experience:

• https://github.com/firstcontributions/first-contributions

then, once you are feeling it --- go rogue!

• tagged #first-timers https://github.com/topics/first-timers

• tagged #first-timers-only https://github.com/topics/first-timers-only

• tagged #first-timers-friendly https://github.com/topics/first-timers-friendly

• tagged #beginner-friendly https://github.com/topics/beginner-friendly

• tagged #good-first-issue https://github.com/topics/good-first-issue

• tagged #beginner-project https://github.com/topics/beginner-project

Specific repos:

• tagged #first-timers-only https://github.com/bnb/good-first-issue

for more advanced coders

tagged #help-wanted https://github.com/topics/help-wanted

tagged #hacktoberfest https://github.com/topics/hacktoberfest

tagged #contributions-welcome https://github.com/topics/contributions-welcome

repository https://github.com/despo/issuehub.io

repository https://github.com/up-for-grabs/up-for-grabs.net

specific repositories

search repositories named #Hacktoberfest https://github.com/search?q=Hacktoberfest

search repositories named #Hacktoberfest-2019 https://github.com/search?q=Hacktoberfest-2019

What's in it for you?

Helping your fellow coders, fav repos / projects --- supporting OpenSource!

Once registered with Digital Ocean, All contributers that get atleast 5 pull requests accepted (in no special combination of projects) --- get default swag offered by Digital Ocean (TBA).

However - lots of tech companies throw their own "special swag" into the mix, for doing specific tasks....(TBA)

#swag https://github.com/benbarth/hacktoberfest-swag

#swag (Listed in alphabetic order) https://github.com/crweiner/hacktoberfest-swag-list

#swag (google that shit!) https://www.google.com/search?q=hacktoberfest+2019+swag