The latest articles on DEV Community by Kiran Fatima (@kiran_fatima). https://dev.to/kiran_fatima https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F1658169%2F1f31fb2d-c537-4138-a55e-1ce0b0b2750d.jpg https://dev.to/kiran_fatima en Kiran Fatima Sun, 03 Nov 2024 12:38:27 +0000 https://dev.to/kiran_fatima/turning-frustration-into-fascination-my-path-to-open-source--3hdg https://dev.to/kiran_fatima/turning-frustration-into-fascination-my-path-to-open-source--3hdg <p><strong>Yes, I won Hacktoberfest 2024</strong> 🤩<br> I’m a student of a sophomore student of Software Engineering and now loving the open-source world.<br> The saying <strong>"The more you hate, the more you love"</strong>, It all started from this 😅.<br> I vividly remember, the last year in October there was an event for Hacktoberfest, some guest speakers were invited to give the intro to open-source to the students, and blah blah. As we were the juniors, we were forced to join the session, even if we didn’t want to take it, we had to. I was not able to understand even a single word, but one thing I got was that open-source is when we do some changes to someone’s else’ code to make it better, but I didn’t know how all of this is done.</p> <p>We were just fed up with that session, but later I thought that this was worth it, there must be something special about it. The special thing was the t-shirt and swags that I discovered at that time 😁, which aren’t available this year sadly. But of course this is something more than that.</p> <p>In October, starting open-source as a newbie was challenging for me. From only knowing how to upload a project to Github to how to create a Pull Request was an interesting journey. Initially, I was creating as many issues as possible I could and there wasn’t any response coming and not even a single issue was being assigned to me. This gave me a sense of patience that it’s absolutely normal to get a response even after a whole week. Then I started getting responses gradually. There came a time when I couldn’t even handle all the tasks and fix all the issues assigned to me.<br> Overall, This journey has been fascinating, and had many opportunities to connect and network with the open-source community; the only thing required is patience and consistency.<br> Sitting forcefully in the Hacktoberfest session to being part of the team conducting session now has been a very interesting journey 💙.</p> devchallenge hacktoberfest opensource