How's your Hacktoberfest progress?

I hadn't been paying attention, but Hacktoberfest was really easy for me 🙃

How are you doing?

Comments

[Richard Burk]

I'm really happy with my first completed hacktoberfest 😊

PS: It's also my first time contributing to OSS projects 🤙

[Ece]

Really? I've been dying to contribute on GitHub, but I can't seem to find anything for my basic-intermediate HTML and CSS skills. How did you contribute?

[Richard Burk]

You can check all HTML related issues for hacktoberfest here.

For CSS, you can check it here.

Hope that I can help on your first HTML and CSS contrib :)

How did you contribute?

• I just look for beginner-friendly tag or look for something interesting that suits on my experience

[Ece]

Thanks for the advice, I actually contributed to some stuff, yay!

[ItsASine (Kayla)]

nil :)

I've either been doing homework, reading my backlog of articles here, or tinkering on Gitlab, which is not Github PRs. And they say to do a bunch of different stuff, rather than making minor tweaks of the same variety, so I'm probably going to have to bow out of it this month to focus on other stuff.

[Arun]

Just curious if Gitlab also has some sort of Hacktoberfest program? 🤔

[ItsASine (Kayla)]

Not that I'm aware of :( They don't have as big of a community aspect like Github. They try, but it doesn't stick. The big appeal there is the CI integrations and free private repos.

[Carly Ho 🌈]

I have a bunch of my projects open-sourced, so admittedly it was pretty easy for me to get 5 PRs in. My next step, though, is setting up one of those projects such that other people can contribute to it easily, since it’s now at MVP status.

[Lea Reimann 🦄]

Or you could contribute to github.com/firstcontributions/firs... and/or spread the word :)

[Sung M. Kim]

11/5 but it's more like 4/5 as 8 Contributions to thechangelog/show-notes is more like 1 PR...

But the learning experience has been wonderful so far

[Stacy Montemayor]

I did some show notes for the Change Log too! I'd like to do more maybe next week, but yeah, not exactly difficult. But, it was my first PR ever and was a great intro.

I'm not proficient enough in any language to really work on meaningful issues. But I found a great project to help on. Basically, I'm doing really repetitive and boring data cleaning of election results - getting data from PDFs and convoluted .xls into .csv's. But, since I have an interest in software engineering, data, and the media, I see it as a Mr. Miyagi type of exercise. I'm being exposed to all sorts of problems developers could face with public datasets. So, overall, 👍

[Sung M. Kim]

I did some show notes for the Change Log too!

Wow, 🤩 you really went the extra miles and added timestamps as well👍.

it was my first PR ever and was a great intro.

I do agree with you that it was a good first PR to make as it helps to focus on OSS contribution process instead of worry about how code should work & formatted, etc.

I'm doing really repetitive and boring data cleaning of election results - getting data from PDFs and convoluted .xls into .csv's

I am sure you will be an automation ninja and find a lazy way to accomplish it 😉.

And I hope you can share the process as you learn along 😄.

[Stacy Montemayor]

I am so looking forward to learning all the lazy ways to extract data. I need more python right now, but soon - very soon - I'm excited to learn about scraping!

[Alessandro Pischedda]

Very well. I've done 5 PR in the first 5 days of October and I'm still searching new issue to solve.
My idea is to use this challenge to do PR to not my repositories but contribute (even if it is the smallest one) to other projects.
I've admit that some of the PR that I've done is a very simple fix on some telegam bot (probably a bot done during a course , they are similar) but the war to get some issue is very intense when you're looking only on external projects :).

[Ali Spittel]

I'm at five none of these were super meaningful PR's though. I did them mostly just to get the projects setup on my computer. That being said all my personal stuff is open source and my contributions are a lot more meaningful there but I just push to them rather than PR-ing. I'm going to definitely make more as the month continues :)

[Prashant Chaudhari]

I made total 3 PR till now. All of them are like answering a particular topic and Improving CONTRIBUTING.md file etc. I am hoping i can find a good issue in which i can write some actually good code. But anyway those were my first PR, so i am quite happy. At first I was kind a afraid of what if I don't write and good answer, What if some things are incorrect. But everyone is so helpful and I am enjoying it.

[Omkar Manjrekar]

You can look for TheAlgorithms/Java.

[Prashant Chaudhari]

I kind of forgot JAVA. I used it back in college but now it's all about JavaScript. :)

So, I am looking for JavaScript Projects.

[Juan F Gonzalez]

This my situation exactly, used Java a lot in college but I'm personally more into JS. That's where is at.

[Erik Nelson]

Haven't made much progress so far, I've been trying to identify projects that would be good targets for me for Hacktoberfest. I'm also trying to kill multiple birds with one stone and contribute to projects that have contribution rewards (Gatsby gives you a discount on swag and any contributions to a Microsoft open source project during Hacktoberfest will net you a t-shirt). Traveling for work hasn't been conducive to getting this stuff done either.

[Juan F Gonzalez]

I have to say that this week I've been able to get a grip in those contributions. I've already exceeded the 5 PR limit and that motivates me, even more, to continue on the rest of the month (whenever I get some time)

[Prashant Chaudhari]

It is a month long event hosted by GitHub and DigitalOcean, to encourage people to contribute to open source software.

It starts every year on October and you can participate till the end of the October. If you successfully make 5 pull requests on any GitHub public project, you will get a hacktoberfest t shirt when this event ends.

You can learn more on their site