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Posted on Sep 17, 2020

Hacktoberfest 2020 — Who's looking for contributors?

#hacktoberfest #opensource #discuss #contributorswanted

Update 10/2/20: If you’d like your project to be eligible for Hacktoberfest contributions, you must classify it as a Hacktoberfest Project.

Hacktoberfest 2020 is coming up on October 1st!

Starting now through the end of Hacktoberfest, maintainers can drop links to/information on their projects in the comments below. The goal? To find helpful contributors seeking projects to improve in the name of Hacktoberfest!

Participants can use this thread as a reference for projects that are actively seeking contributions 🎉

P.S. Maintainers: Wondering how you can get your repos in tip-top shape for contributors? Take a look at this article.

P.P.S. If you'd like to find a way to lend your expertise to this year's group of open source newbies participating in Hacktoberfest, Raise.dev's Hacktoberfest Helpdesk is the perfect opportunity! You can volunteer for paired programming and Q&A sessions via Twitch and more! A few of the DEV/Forem team will be helping out at this helpdesk — hope to see you there!

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Amruta Ranade • Sep 17 '20 • Edited

Code newbies and new open source contributors -- help us build our repository of CockroachDB To-Do apps: github.com/cockroachdb/cockroachdb...

Docs enthusiasts -- help us improve our docs: github.com/cockroachdb/docs/issues...

Go developers -- help us improve our code: github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/i...

Detailed contributing guide: github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/b...

Yash_Jaiswal • Sep 17 '20

Thanks for sharing the resources. I would like to participate in this challenge and will start my journey of open-source. I have some experience with flutter and I am studying core java now. I will do everything I am capable of doing.

Obioma Osuagwu • Sep 25 '20

I am excited to participate in the Cockroachdb challenge.
I hope to turn it in on time.
Thanks for the encouragement
Regards
@justobioma

Katie Raby • Oct 1 '20

Thank you for posting this! I'm delighted to have contributed to open source for the first time this evening. Thanks for the opportunity.

Amruta Ranade • Oct 1 '20

Congratulations on your first contribution! Merged the PR!!

lex • Oct 15 '21

Thanks for sharing your repo, Amruta! Just checking - is it okay for several folks to contribute to/open pull requests for each language-specific to-do issue, or are you accepting one PR per issue?

Thank you!

Thomas Bnt • Sep 17 '20

I'm readyyy 🙌🏼

I search contributors for the Awesome Web Monetization repository. I you already know what is the Web Monetization, this is great ! Add your tool(s), nice project(s), post(s) and tutorial(s). Feel free to contribute 😄

For users who not know what is that, you have this website for a demonstration 😊

thomasbnt / awesome-web-monetization

🕶️ Stuffs about Web Monetization. Packages, articles, documentation links and others tools.

Robin Gagnon • Sep 17 '20 • Edited

Anyone is welcome to contribute to vimcolorschemes.com 🎉

The work is mostly frontend, but there is stuff to do on the data fetching side of the project for more advanced users. I'm also looking for feedback and improvements to the documentation.

Frontend stack:

Gatsby (React)
JavaScript
Scss
MongoDB
Jest

Data is fetched and generated with the following techs:

Python
VimScript
MongoDB

There are already some issues that can be worked on right away, and I'm preparing more for October 1st.

reobin / vimcolorschemes

Find the best vim color schemes around

Find the best vim color schemes around

Welcome 🎉

vimcolorschemes is a small constellation of projects working on the common goal of building the ultimate resource for vim users to find the perfect color scheme for their development environment.

The focus here is always on the content. The simple design of the website makes the color schemes the focal point of every page. Speed and accessibility are also part of the core mission of vimcolorschemes.

Key features 🚀

Daily updated list of hundreds of vim color scheme repositories
Awesome vim (or arrows) key bindings to quickly navigate through the whole site

Get Involved

vimcolorschemes is aimed to be a collaborative project, and you are invited to help. All types of involvement are welcome!

Developers, check out the development guide to start writing code and contribute.

Issues

Bugs and feature requests are welcome. Make sure to follow the issue…

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Jérémie Astor • Sep 18 '20

Gonna check this repo 😄

Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Sep 17 '20

#100DaysOfCloud needs your help

Our community is about providing support and a personal network when learning cloud computing. We have multiple open-source projects that need volunteers.

100DaysOfCloud / 100DaysOfCloud

The Challenge

Read about the challenge and register at #100DaysOfCloud.com
Join the Discord Channel
Copy the 100DaysOfCloud/100DaysOfCloud Journey Template
Use the Micro, Short or Long Day Journey Template and document your day-to-day progress.
Update your main README to link back to your Day Journey article
If you need ideas go to #100DaysOfCloudIdeas

How to use this template:

Fill in your details where you see this icon ✍️ We have provided a sample Day Journey entry staring at 0. You can delete this example.

[✍️ Your Name]'s Cloud Journey

[✍️ Introduce yourself]

[✍️ Tell us why you started this challenge]

[✍️ Tell us where you want to be at the end of the challenge]

Stepping out the door

☁️ 1 > My First Day
☁️ 2 &gt
☁️ 3 &gt
☁️ 4 &gt
☁️ 5 &gt…

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Join our Discord and message us in the #100-days-volunteers channel

Alberto Pérez de Rada Fiol • Sep 17 '20

Tisn would love to welcome some contributors! All the information can be found at:

Tisn / tisn.app

Tisn - The introverts' social network ➡️ Meet people while doing what you enjoy!

Tisn - The introverts' social network

Meet people while doing what you enjoy!

What is tisn.app?

Welcome to the tisn.app (or just Tisn) repository! We are very glad to have you here. If you want to help us make Tisn better, this is definitely the place to be!

The primary objective of Tisn is to try and address the problem of the apparent difficulty that exists to meet people and make new friends on this modern world. To do that, our social network:

Connects people according to their interests
Encourages people to go outside and meet others while doing something that they all enjoy
Is as simple as possible

We try to do all of that while being completely transparent and respecting our users' privacy.

Contributing

We…

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Micah Lindley • Sep 17 '20

Anyone with experience in stylesheets, we're looking to transition from standard CSS to LESS for our Cordova mobile app as well as add some other functionality; feel free to check out the issues:

Scratch-Client-4 / itchy-cordova

📱 Cordova-based mobile client for Scratch

Itchy

A mobile client (app) for Scratch built with Apache Cordova

Building

Requirements

Git
Node.js and NPM (most likely bundled with your Node.js installation)
The Cordova CLI, install it with: npm install -g cordova
- Note : macOS users might need to change directory permisisons if getting a permission error..
A JDK, Android Studio, and Gradle. Install them according to this guide.

First, clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/scratch-client-4/itchy-cordova

Then go into it and install all dependencies:

cd itchy-cordova
npm install

You should see two version numbers appear. Then run the build script:

npm run-script build

It'll build you the runnable source files (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) in a directory called www. After that you can build the project into an Android package (APK) file:

cordova platform add android
cordova build android --minSdkVersion=22

The last few lines of the output of that command will tell you where the…

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Alba Silvente Fuentes • Oct 3 '20

Hi Micah, I could help with it, I have experience migrating from CSS to other preprocessors and refactoring HTML, but first I want to ask you some questions about it :)

There is a place where I can connect with you? I just follow you here, if you can follow me back we can talk by DM 💜 Thanks in advance!

Micah Lindley • Oct 3 '20

Sounds good! Also, GitHub is good.

Jen Looper • Sep 17 '20

Front-End Foxes needs a revamped web site! Help us launch here! github.com/FrontEndFoxes/ff-web/is...

♥️♥️♥️🦊🦊🦊♥️♥️♥️

Eddie Jaoude • Sep 17 '20

We have a great community and community projects, have a look, we are happy to help, any question let us know github.com/EddieJaoudeCommunity

Jaye Hernandez • Sep 17 '20 • Edited

Always on the look out for new contributors over at Letra! A beginner friendly repo perfect to start your first contribution to open source.

Tech Stack: Vue.js and Node.js

jayehernandez / letra-extension

Passively learn a new language every time you open a new tab

Hey there! This repository is currently on VACATION MODE 🏝

⚠️ Commenting and opening issues or PRs won't be allowed for a while. You can still fork the repo, leave a star, and use the extension. Just taking a break from maintaining this repo, back soon. For any urgent concerns, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter. Thank you!

Passively learn a new language every time you open a new tab.

Download Chrome Extension

✨ Features

New word everyday
Listen to the word in the chosen language
New inspirational quote about learning
Dark Interface

🌎 Supported Languages

🇿🇦 Afrikaans
🇸🇦 Arabic
🇧🇩 Bangla
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese
🇨🇳 Chinese (Simplified)
🇹🇼 Chinese (Traditional)
🇭🇷 Croatian
🇳🇱 Dutch
🇵🇭 Filipino
🇫🇷 French
🇩🇪 German
🇬🇷 Greek
🇮🇳 Hindi
🇮🇹 Italian
🇮🇩 Indonesian
🇯🇵 Japanese
🇰🇷 Korean
🇵🇱 Polish
🇷🇺 Russian
🇪🇸 Spanish
🇸🇪 Swedish
🇮🇳 Tamil
🇹🇭 Thai

…

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Vaibhav Khulbe • Sep 18 '20

💯% recommended for beginners 🔥

Jaye Hernandez • Sep 18 '20

Thanks Vaibhav!! 🤩

Rahil Sarvaiya • Sep 18 '20

This is my first shot at Hacktoberfest, looking forward to contribute here 🙌🏻

Jaye Hernandez • Sep 19 '20

Will be waiting for your contribution! 🥳

dennislwm • Sep 23 '20

Hi,
Nice work. I was wondering if this extension could be customized for other text, such as quote of the day. Will it be difficult to modify the code or is the code modular?

Sorry, if this is off-topic. Rgds

Jaye Hernandez • Sep 28 '20

Sorry for the late reply, haven't been able to visit DEV in a while. Technically this is possible, code is quite modular! But for the quote of the day, since it's a language learning app, I'd like for the quotes to be solely related to that for now. :)

Anna • Sep 26 '20

This is so cool! Despite being a software developer for the last few years, this year would be my first year contributing to Hacktoberfest and your project looks so open-source beginner-friendly, I'm already looking at how to contribute!