Here comes Hacktoberfest 2023 with a lot of opportunities for all the newbies in OpenSource, irrespective of their experience in tech, they can bring value to Tech in their own way by writing codes, managing the community, pointing out bugs, linking different APIs and applications to their architecture, writing documentation, rules and a lot of different things by which everyone can get a chance to contribute in OpenSource in their way and get a quick impulse to start their exciting journey of being an Open Source contributor.
Why do we have to contribute in Open Source?
Open Source provides a way for folks in Tech to collaborate and work on different projects related to different stacks which brings up the value of working together and team building, also it introduces a startup culture as well by thinking about various projects and working together to make them work.
Looking out for sponsors for our own projects, or approaching the project managers to start working on some previously opened projects brings up collaboration with different people which eventually might result in bringing up a lot of opportunities like sponsors, mentorships, internships or jobs.
Open Source also helps you to gain engagement in public as it includes being active in communities which helps in building up communities and increasing your network amongst folks.
What is Hacktoberfest?
Hacktoberfest is DigitalOcean’s annual event that encourages people to contribute to open source throughout October. Much of modern tech infrastructure—including some of DigitalOcean’s own products—relies on open-source projects built and maintained by passionate people who often don’t have the staff or budgets to do much more than keep the project alive. Hacktoberfest is all about giving back to those projects, sharpening skills, and celebrating all things open source, especially the people that make open source so special.
For the past 10 years, thousands of people—coders and non-coders alike—have participated in Hacktoberfest to support the projects they use and love, learn and practice skills that will enhance their careers, and meet new people who love open source as much as they do.
Hacktoberfest also brings up a lot of amazing projects and repositories that can really enhance your profile and get you a lot of opportunities as a student or as a working professional, these contributions can also make your chances high to getting selected and completing the projects of the most famous OpenSource events in the world like GSOC(Google Summer of Code), MLH-Mentorship(Major League Hacking Mentorship Program), LFX-Mentorship(The Linux Foundation Mentorship Program).
How to Get Started as a Beginner?
After getting to know about the awesome benefits of Open Source and the immense importance of participating in Hacktoberfest, the major question that might have popped into everyone's mind is- How can we Begin our journey of contribution to Open Source as a Beginner?
To get started as a contributor to Open Source there are various ways by which you can save a bit of time in filtering out beginner-friendly projects/repositories from 132,126 repositories🥲😎.
Appwrite Discord server
Appwrite being the one of the Sponsor of Hacktoberfest 2023 is also responsible for providing any kind of help to all the contributors, thus you can reach out to there Discord Server and flood out all the problems or queries out to them and also reach out to them to find some of the beginner friendly repositories which they also keeps on forwarding round the clock to the beginners.
Appwrite Discord Server's link: https://discord.gg/vSy7YK3N
Good First Issue label
If you are a beginner and have been looking for beginner-friendly repositories without joining or jumping/searching any other website then, you may consider by directly reaching out to GitHub and searching the tag good first issue.
Github Topics
You may also consider searching for a particular project with a topic. This topic can vary from tags, languages, tech, etc. It enables you to choose a stack of your choice and then contribute based on your expertise to find some interesting issues that you can work with and give your best😎.
GitHub Advanced Search
You may like to filter out the repositories based on languages, extensions, tags, issues, newest or the oldest repositories, most or the least commented one, recently or least-recently updated, most or least starts, most or least forks, and a lot more features have been provided in advanced search to the folks who are willing to contribute based on their skills.
Eddie Hub Community Finder
Eddie hub, one of the member of Advisory Council also has a community which enables a lot of folks to contribute in Open Source and provides help to them by various features and tools like Finder which enables you to pick some of the best or beginner friendly repositories.
Finder Link: finder.eddiehub.io
EddieHub Discord Server link: https://discord.gg/
Here are some of the best methods to find beginner friendly repositories and projects to contribute to Open Source and participate in Hacktoberfest, with full enthusiasm and efficiency. Hope you guys reach out to your maximum potential and so do me as well since i will be participating in it as well.
So Best of Luck guys to you and to myself👍🙏.
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