How are you prepping for Hacktoberfest?
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Christine Belzie

Christine Belzie @cbid2

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How are you prepping for Hacktoberfest?

Publish Date: Sep 20 '23
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If you're new to open source or like me, an avid open source contributor, and plan on participating in Hacktoberfest, share your tips on how you're preparing for this event in the comments.

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  • Dumebi Okolo
    Dumebi OkoloSep 21, 2023

    I don't know that I have any tips, seeing as I've never really contributed to open source before. However, I'm actually very enthusiastic. I am currently reading as much as I can, and browsing projects that I can add some value to in the way I know to.

    But mostly, I'm looking to gain courage and inspiration from other people's journeys.

  • Kelvin
    KelvinSep 21, 2023

    I think a tip could be as a new to the open source community see anything that you could contribute. Specially document pages, spell checks or if examples and readme makes sense and etc. Usually the first open source contributions always start like those smaller fixes :)

    • Dumebi Okolo
      Dumebi OkoloSep 21, 2023

      I have always wanted to find projects that I can contribute to their documentation, but I don't know how to find them/I have never found them.
      The ones I see always require coding contributions.
      How can I go about this?

      • Christine Belzie
        Christine Belzie Sep 21, 2023

        Oooh good question @dumebii! :) I definitely recommend doing the following:

        1. Look through the Readme file and contributing guides of projects and check for things like typos, and missing information (e.g. Code of Conduct, no license)
        2. Check to see if a product's tutorial is missing important steps(I suggest contributing to the project first) or has outdated information If you want to work on projects that are docs-centric, I mentioned a few of them here in my FreeCodeCamp article.
        • Dumebi Okolo
          Dumebi OkoloSep 21, 2023

          Oh! Okay. I'd do these then. Thanks so much!

  • Kelvin
    KelvinSep 21, 2023

    also hacktoberfest.com/participation/#b...

  • Allison
    AllisonSep 21, 2023

    We're planning to participate as a company (Infield) for the first time, and super excited.

  • Arturo Batistute
    Arturo BatistuteSep 21, 2023

    Completely newbie regarding open source.. I'm preparing my self with YouTube videos and dev.to posts as well.

  • Chris Jarvis
    Chris JarvisSep 22, 2023

    I haven't done much yet. I'm drafting a blog post about it with link to what I've done previously. I need to look for project to I can contribute to.

    I also need to determine if I can maintain a project this year. I did one last year but had to go off line a bit. When I can back I had been spammed by people that ignored my guidelines.
    Maybe I just need to update those guidelines and say I'm only available certain times.

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