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Iago Alonso
Iago Alonso

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First year participating in Hacktoberfest!

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It was an awesome experience. My contributions were small
but I had the opportunity to discover new and interesting projects.

Contributing to Poliastro

This was my highlight of the event, and even though it was a docs contribution, i got the chance to experience part of the workflow of a well-structured repo.

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poliastro - πŸš€ Astrodynamics in Python

Poliastro is not an easy repo, but after searching a bit i found an issue that i could actually tackle (the only one, actually).

Add fancy links in docs #986

Idea taken from SfePy new website:

Screenshot_2020-06-30 SfePy Simple Finite Elements in Python β€” SfePy version 2020 2 documentation

After a bit of research (mostly visiting the SfePy repo to see how they did it, as i already had a bit of experience with Sphinx) i decided that it was a good fit for me, as it was not difficult, and it was a "feature" that would make the docs appearance a bit nicer.

I could actually add a bit of value to the project!

Yes, it is not a hard PR. Yes, it is a docs contribution, but this was my contribution to a really interesting project, and i hope it is not the only one, even though i know nothing about astrodynamics.

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