Hacktoberfest in Aba

Celebrating The Open Source Philosophy

As a means of encouraging participation during Hacktoberfest 2018, this project targets those relatively new to the open source ecosystem and programming in general, but are eager to learn and improve their creative skills by contributing to projects on GitHub.

By creating issues that require easy to complete tasks, we are providing a platform where beginners can readily join the open source movement without being overwhelmed with the restrictions and complexities that they may encounter when trying to contribute to already established open source projects for the first time. We hope that newcomers will find it easier improve their skills and grow their confidence as they continue to contribute to projects like this.

Welcome to the world of Open Source.

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What is Hacktoberfest?

Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software brought to you by DigitalOcean in partnership with GitHub and Twilio.
Registered participants who make Pull Requests to public repositories on GitHub throughout the month of October qualify for a limited edition T-shirt. Contributions as small as bug fixes and documentation updates are valid ways of participating.
For the full details on how to participate, visit the homepage here. Read More...

Saturday, Oct 13

What is Open Source?

The term "open source" refers to something people can modify and share because its design is publicly accessible.
The term originated in the context of software development to designate a specific approach to creating computer programs. Today, however, "open source" designates a broader set of values—what we call "the open source way."
Open source projects, products, or initiatives embrace and celebrate principles of open exchange, collaborative participation, rapid prototyping, transparency, meritocracy, and community-oriented development. Read More...

Saturday, Oct 13

Contributing

To get a shirt, you must make five pull requests (PRs) between October 1st – 31st in any timezone. PRs can be to any public repo on GitHub, not just the ones highlighted. The PR must contain commits you made yourself. PRs reported by maintainers as spam or that are automated will be marked as invalid and won’t count towards the shirt. This year, the first 50,000 of you can earn a T-shirt (compared with 30,000 in 2017).

– Create an account on GitHub: GitHub;
– Follow the event to account for each of the contributions: Hacktoberfest;
– You need to know how Git works: GitHub, DigitalOcean .

Contact

Hacktoberfest In Aba (Maiden Edition) was brought to you by a team of highly skilled software developers. Our experience with software developer tools and resources led us to bring the whole developer community in Aba together to explore modern technologies in the open source market and help drive the adoption of innovative solutions for our customers and their businesses in today's fast-changing digital economy. Say hi to:
– Organizers: @davidconoh, and @kreativejosh.
– Maintainers: @kodekage and @phavor.
– Contributors: @darmhoo, @The-lady-developer, @vinay72, and @actorkelvin.

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