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Let me first introduce what is Hacktoberfest....
Hacktoberfest is an Open-Source Contribution challenge held each year in the month of October. It is a month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean and DEV. The Main purpose behind is to give its participants an introductory idea about open source contribution.
What is the eligibility criteria for participating in Hacktoberfest.
There are no eligibility criteria. Whether you’re a student or an experienced professional, you’re welcome to participate in this challenge.
Why anyone should participate?
If you want to get started with open source contribution, this is the best way to start your Journey. Open source contribution experience has an awesome weight on your resume and can give you an edge over other candidates in an interview. It’ll also give you experience. Also, if you’ll complete this challenge, you’ll be awarded an awesome T-shirt along with some stickers and a badge. Your swags will be delivered to your place for free. And It’s exciting.
What are the Prerequisites technology, anyone should know beforehand?
The minimum technical requirement is knowledge of the GitHub . If you know working on GitHub, you’re good enough to participate in this challenge.
What are the steps to complete this challenge successfully?
Step 1: Register for Hacktoberfest with your GitHub account.
Step 2: Contribute to any repository you like, check instructions to contribute in each repository. A good repository has always a good README.md file. If you have difficulty in committing or raising PR, you can prefer Introduction to GitHub.
Step 3: Start contributing.
Personal Views : Many people are participating in this competition just for getting swags. As, we have already stated earlier that this is a beginner friendly challenge, so if you’re experienced try for other competitions like Google Summer of Code, Outreachy, GirlScript Summer of Code, Google Season of Docs, Google Summer of Earth Engine. There’re many others also, but these are some very famous open source competitions that you should participate. You can also take sessions and organize workshops or webinars to share your experience that will help them to get started with open source contributions. This should be the purpose of participating again.
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