How are you prepping for Hacktoberfest?

If you're new to open source or like me, an avid open source contributor, and plan on participating in Hacktoberfest, share your tips on how you're preparing for this event in the comments.

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[Chris Jarvis]

I haven't done much yet. I'm drafting a blog post about it with link to what I've done previously. I need to look for project to I can contribute to.

I also need to determine if I can maintain a project this year. I did one last year but had to go off line a bit. When I can back I had been spammed by people that ignored my guidelines.
Maybe I just need to update those guidelines and say I'm only available certain times.

[Christine Belzie]

Maybe you can do that as a separate README file for Hacktoberfest @jarvisscript?

[Chris Jarvis]

Maybe I had a contributor's guide based on Virtual Coffee's guidelines they have a full post about how to prepare. I'll make some update.

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[Arturo Batistute]

Completely newbie regarding open source.. I'm preparing my self with YouTube videos and dev.to posts as well.

[Christine Belzie]

That’s a good start @arturobatistute, but I highly recommend putting this knowledge into practice too! 😊Here are some beginner-friendly repository you can contribute to:

1. Virtual Coffee Preptember Repo: github.com/Virtual-Coffee/vc-prept...
2. EddieHub Hacktoberfest Practice Repo: github.com/EddieHubCommunity/hackt...
3. OpenSauced/guestbook: github.com/open-sauced/guestbook

[Arturo Batistute]

I'm going to take a look! Thanks a lot Christine!

[Allison]

We're planning to participate as a company (Infield) for the first time, and super excited.

[Christine Belzie]

Congratulations @allieoopz! :)

[Dumebi Okolo]

I don't know that I have any tips, seeing as I've never really contributed to open source before. However, I'm actually very enthusiastic. I am currently reading as much as I can, and browsing projects that I can add some value to in the way I know to.

But mostly, I'm looking to gain courage and inspiration from other people's journeys.

[Kelvin]

I think a tip could be as a new to the open source community see anything that you could contribute. Specially document pages, spell checks or if examples and readme makes sense and etc. Usually the first open source contributions always start like those smaller fixes :)

[Dumebi Okolo]

I have always wanted to find projects that I can contribute to their documentation, but I don't know how to find them/I have never found them.
The ones I see always require coding contributions.
How can I go about this?

[Christine Belzie]

Oooh good question @dumebii! :) I definitely recommend doing the following:

1. Look through the Readme file and contributing guides of projects and check for things like typos, and missing information (e.g. Code of Conduct, no license)
2. Check to see if a product's tutorial is missing important steps(I suggest contributing to the project first) or has outdated information If you want to work on projects that are docs-centric, I mentioned a few of them here in my FreeCodeCamp article.

[Dumebi Okolo]

Oh! Okay. I'd do these then. Thanks so much!

[Kelvin]

also hacktoberfest.com/participation/#b...