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But my questions intend to challenge your opinion:
But if you have already participated enough, and are good at an open-source thing and still you're making invalid/spammy or not-needed PRs just so that you can get a free T-shirt, then I'm sorry you definitely need to change the outlook of your thinking.
When have you already participated enough?
When are you good enough at open source?
My first pull request this october was changing a "13" to a "17" here. If this were the only type of commit during Hacktoberfest, I would disappoint myself. In 2019 I received 9 PRs to my own projects. In 2018 (my first Hacktoberfest) I submitted over 20 PRs. This year, I don't know what my goal should be. I've contributed to some C# code for the first time. But the most important code I make this October is either in projects that are still closed, but will be opened, or committed to master, so no t-shirt trigger.
So how do I get a t-shirt to remind me of my month in Switzerland, which happened to coincide with Hacktoberfest? What if all I manage to show for my Hacktoberfest efforts is the bare minimum? Do I feel guilty over textile manufacturing? This would be the third t-shirt I have ever owned that contained print that I chose. I never bought or owned any "merch". Suddenly I find that I want to be part of this global community of people who give their work to each other for free, and I want to let everyone on the street know that it exists.
I am not "getting a free t-shirt". I am spreading the word.
In short, I think that guilt-tripping others over the economy is neither productive, conductive, inductive, or kind. :-)
As for planting trees, I already do that: via Ekofolio and via Isha Foundation. "T-shirt vs. tree" is just a case of whataboutism: You can actually get a t-shirt from Hacktoberfest and plant any number of trees you like without cynical, mutual exclusion. :-)
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But my questions intend to challenge your opinion:
When have you already participated enough?
When are you good enough at open source?
My first pull request this october was changing a "13" to a "17" here. If this were the only type of commit during Hacktoberfest, I would disappoint myself. In 2019 I received 9 PRs to my own projects. In 2018 (my first Hacktoberfest) I submitted over 20 PRs. This year, I don't know what my goal should be. I've contributed to some C# code for the first time. But the most important code I make this October is either in projects that are still closed, but will be opened, or committed to master, so no t-shirt trigger.
So how do I get a t-shirt to remind me of my month in Switzerland, which happened to coincide with Hacktoberfest? What if all I manage to show for my Hacktoberfest efforts is the bare minimum? Do I feel guilty over textile manufacturing? This would be the third t-shirt I have ever owned that contained print that I chose. I never bought or owned any "merch". Suddenly I find that I want to be part of this global community of people who give their work to each other for free, and I want to let everyone on the street know that it exists.
I am not "getting a free t-shirt". I am spreading the word.
In short, I think that guilt-tripping others over the economy is neither productive, conductive, inductive, or kind. :-)
As for planting trees, I already do that: via Ekofolio and via Isha Foundation. "T-shirt vs. tree" is just a case of whataboutism: You can actually get a t-shirt from Hacktoberfest and plant any number of trees you like without cynical, mutual exclusion. :-)