What exactly is hacktoberfest❓

Hacktoberfest 2020 is a month long virtual festival event to celebrate open source contributions presented by Digital Ocean, Intel and DEV. It is the easiest way to get into open source!

Do you know what is Open Source?

• Open-source software is software that is freely available to use, redistribute, and modify. Projects that are open source encourage a transparent process that is advanced through distributed peer review. Open-source projects can be updated quickly and as needed, and offer reliable and flexible software that is not built on locked proprietary systems.

• The best way to begin to contribute to open-source projects is to start by contributing to software that you already use. As a user of a particular tool, you best understand what functionalities would be most valuable to the project. Make sure you read any available documentation about the software first. In fact, many open-source projects will have a CONTRIBUTING.md file in the root directory, which you should read carefully before you contribute. You may also want to get a sense of the interactions between other developers in the community if there are forums about the project available.

Finally, if you’re just starting out with contributing to open-source software, it is a good idea to start with something small — each contribution is valuable. You may want to start with fixing typos, adding comments, or writing clearer documentation.

Lets check if you have Git Installed

You can check whether Git is installed and what version you are using by opening up a terminal window in Linux or Mac, or a command prompt window in Windows, and typing the following command:

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1git version

However, if Git is not installed, you will receive an error similar to the following:

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1-bash: git: command not found

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1'git' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.```

In this case, you should install Git into your machine first Install Git Guide

Git CheetSheet

How to contribute to Open Source ❓

Steps to follow 📜

Step 1:

Step 2:

• Go to the repository where you want to contribute to!
• Example: This Repository

Step 3: 🐛

• Go to the issues tab
• Find the issue with a label of hacktoberfest (Tip: You can even filter it)

Step 4: 🍴

• Read the title and description to know what the author really wants?

• want to work on that issue?

• Fork It! (You can get your own fork/copy of the project by using the Fork button)

  

Step 5: 🐢 🐇

• Ready, Steady, Go…
• Make the required changes/feature

Step 6: ⭐

• Create a Pull Request (PR) Learn More
• Star the Project! 🌟
• Wait for the author’s comments

And Wait for GitHub to mail you the form for shipping of Schwags 👕

Fin!