Well the title seems a bit Too much but since now you're here let's talk Open source!

If you are new to hacktoberfest or open source, your search is over! In this blog we will talk about everthing you need to know about hacktoberfest, where to find beginner friendly projects? how to contribute? does it have to be a code contribution and what not.

What is Hacktoberfest ⁉️

Hacktoberfest is month-long celebration of open-source by DigitalOcean that encourages new folks to participate and introduce them to the culture of Open-Source. Developers globally get involved in by completing pull requests, participating in events, and donating to open source projects. During this time you learn and get involved in the Open-source community and earn limited-edition swags

How to Participate in Hacktoberfest 🤔

First and foremost get yourself registered on the official Hacktoberfest website through your Github account and that's pretty much the very first step

To get started contributing, you need to look for beginner friendly projects that suits your experience with any coding language. If you are a complete beginner and have no prior knowledge of any programming language, you don't need to worry.

This is what makes open-source intersting and inclusive of all. You can make no-code contributions too. By non-code contribution here we mean Writing documentations, designing, testing, Community management and mentoring.

How to find beginner-friendly projects 🔎

Go to the Github website

Search for hacktoberfest (all github) in the search box in the top left and simply press enter

Now you would see a list of repository that have the tag of hacktoberfest on it. Open the repository and then read the README.md file to see if you can do any code or non-code Contributions. Usually the README.md files have all the steps written on how to fork the file ,set it on your local system and how make a pull request.

added a link to a beginner-friendly repository (non -code) at the end where you can get your 1 PR merged by ! Check it out 😉

If you are not familiar with any of these terms or what is git you can refer to Yuri 's article on The ultimate contribution guide to Open Source

Shoutout to Yuri for writting such a detailed content ! 🙏🏽

Limited edition Swags 🤪

As a token of appreciation and to promote the Open-Source Community Digital Ocean gives out Free T-shirts. All you need to do is get your 4 PRs merged.

If you PR doesn't gets merged in October itself you don't need to worry. Hacktoberfest still counts it if it gets merged after october. PRs you make in only October are counted.

BONUS 🎉

Students often are unaware about a oppurtunity that could have helped them upscale their career in some way. It happend to me a few times that I came to know about a Student program or an internship, but after the deadline. Aweful right? So help me create a repository for Students where they will get to know and add a oppurtunity be it a student program,internship, jobs and what not.

here's the link to the Beginner-friendly repo 👇🏽

github.com/souvikrajsingh/StudentHelp

Read the README.md and the CONTRIBUTORS.md file to get to know more. It's a Non-code Contributing Repository. Get your 1 PR merged today and help the other folks in the community.

here is my T-Shirt i got when i participated in hacktoberfest 😉