๐ Introduction
Hi there, My name is Ajay. I am currently a Higher Secondary School ๐ซ student, studying at Bangalore. I like to code ๐จโ๐ป. I primarily use Python as my language of preference to code. Occasionally, I help others in their projects and I quickly adjust to their code style. I am a quick and adaptive learner. ๐
In this blog I would like to Enthusiastically share my experience about my First Hacktoberfest. ๐คฉ
๐ About Hacktoberfest
- Hacktoberfest is a month-long ๐๏ธ event in October, run by Digital Ocean partnered with GitHub and other companies to support the philosophy of Open Source Software.
- Anyone can take part and participate in Hacktoberfest.
- The requirement for completing the event is to be one among the first 50 thousand ๐ง people to successfully make 4 valid Pull Requests, to any repository(s) hosted in GitHub or Gitlab.
- This year for successfully completing the event you get a Limited Edition T-Shirt, and a Developer Badge. ๐ธ
Enough about Hacktoberfest, let me share my experience in my First Hacktoberfest. ๐
๐ฅณ My Experience
When I first noticed hacktoberfest at the time I was unaware of what is Open Source and how much impact they had on technology ๐ค, also at that time, I wasn't much experienced as a coder and was new to Version Control and GitHub. ๐ฃ
But now things have changed ๐, I have worked on many Projects and I am well versed with how GitHub works.
During this event, I had fun contributing to many projects. I was also appreciated by my family and my friends ๐. But even after preparing myself for this event, I was still a bit hesitant at the start ๐.
Initially all the repositories seemed way out of my league, but as they say "Don't judge a book by its cover", when I had a look into the issues and the code, they weren't actually tough as they seemed ๐. After finishing my 4 PR's, I didn't stop there, I contributed to a few more and I will continue to do so.
Although majority of my contribution were "code related" there were also a few in the other category, like fixing typos ๐.
So what advice I have for first timers like me is that, "Contribution" towards an Open Source Software does not involve only writing code, implementing new features, finding bugs ๐ชฒ, writing tests..., but it can also be something very simple such as fixing grammatical errors, writing blogs ๐ about the product, helping in translation and promoting the product.
Now since I understand more about open source, I will still continue to contribute to Open Source Software regardless whether the event stops or continues. ๐ค
๐ Final Words
I give my thanks to all the companies that hosted this event. I had a lot of fun and learnt new stuff ๐ during this event. I am very much looking forward to this event in the upcoming years.
And lastly, I really appreciate all the people who took their time to read my entire blog ๐.
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