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Vivian Dai
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Hacktoberfest 2021: Finding Projects That Aren't Excluded

Personal Background

This is my first year and first day (I spent October 1st debating about whether or not I should try Hacktoberfest) doing Hacktoberfest. One of the things I noticed immediately was the lack of good beginner friendly projects. Just about every project that was somewhat beginner friendly was also excluded and anything else with a hacktoberfest tag was some huge, insane repository of a full stack project or something that was in no way beginner friendly.

Contributing

The hardest part about contributing might have been the fact there wasn't a nice list of beginner friendly projects. After that, the pull requests I made turned out to be to repositories of excluded (blacklisted) projects:
excluded project example
This means they were reported as a repository that's too easy to make pull requests to.

Solution

Before I made any pull requests, I actually tried to find a nice list of resources with Hacktoberfest specific open source projects in it. I found many resources listing general open source projects but none listing Hacktoberfest specific repositories. To combat that, I decided to create my own list. Similarly, I couldn't find an official list for blacklisted repositories either so I decided to compile my own

If you find any more good, beginner friendly Hacktoberfest projects or notice anything here has become excluded, feel free to contribute. This repository is also under a Hacktoberfest label so a pull request here will count towards your Hacktoberfest contributions as well!

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A list of Hacktoberfest 2022 Repos that are valid to be contributed towards Hacktoberfest pull requests

Hacktoberfest-2022-Repos

A compilation of all valid repos for Hacktoberfest 2022. A list of invalid repos can be found here and a list of repos that has historically been good but seem inactive can be found here.

‼ Notice: This repository has been excluded from Hacktoberfest 2022 ‼

Table of Contents

Topics

Topics

Languages

Languages

Repo By Topic

Algorithms and Data Structures

codedecks-in solutions to various problems on different different online judges and interview prep sites, most repos can count towards Hacktoberfest
CrackerSuman/Algorithms small algorithms repository
hhhrrrttt222111/Patterns patterns in various languages
Knackie/algorithmshacktoberfest2021 Repository for algorithms in various language
mad003/Sorting-Algos sorting algorithms in various languages
OpenGenus/cosmos algorithms on AI, CP, crypto, quantum, and more in

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guptaarth87

I added some of the more project names and their links which have been excluded I hope it will be counted as a useful contribution in your repository.

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Vivian Dai

It definitely is useful, thanks for contributing!