This week the Forem team hosted four streams on Twitch during Hacktoberfest. Here is a recap of what we discussed!

Tuesday Oct 13th: Gratitude Stream.

Nick Taylor and I gave shoutouts to DEV community members who contributed to Forem last week. We had over 15 PRs merged from 11 different folks

Hacktoberfest Week Three Thank you to our Contributors on Forem

Christina Gorton Oct 12 2 min read

#opensource #gratitude #meta #hacktoberfest

Tuesday, Oct. 13th: Liquid Tags talk with Arit Amana hosted by Raise.dev:

Nick Taylor and I were joined by Arit Amana on the raise.dev Hacktoberfest Helpdesk to talk about Liquid Tags. Arit shared how we use them at Forem and what bugs she has found and fixed while working with them.

Wednesday, Oct 7th: Walkthrough Wednesday.

Nick Taylor and I were joined by special guest Lisa Sy, the Product Designer at DEV/Forem.
Lisa answered questions from folks on DEV and shared a lot of great information about working as a product designer and her design process.

Check out Lisa's post to read answers to the questions from her AMA.

Responses to AMA as Lead Product Designer at Forem

Lisa Sy (she/her) Oct 16 4 min read

#ama #meta #design #hacktoberfest

Thursday, Oct. 8th: Pair Programming with Rachael.

DEV community member and Twitch streamer Rachael Wright-Munn joined us on the stream to enhance the recent work she did on creating the Twitch liquid tag.

Add twitch liquid tags #10577

ChaelCodes posted on Oct 04, 2020

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

• [ ] Refactor
• [x] Feature
• [ ] Bug Fix
• [ ] Optimization
• [ ] Documentation Update

Description

Related Tickets & Documents

resolves #10475Twitch Documentation on EmbedsDev.To docs on Liquid Tags

QA Instructions, Screenshots, Recordings

Please replace this line with instructions on how to test your changes, as wellas any relevant images for UI changes.

Added tests?

• [x] yes
• [ ] no, because they aren't needed
• [ ] no, because I need help

Added to documentation?

• [ ] docs.forem.com
• [ ] readme
• [ ] no documentation needed

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Thanks to all our viewers who joined the streams and chatted with us this week!

We look forward to seeing you again next when we are joined by Forem team member Vaidehi Joshi to talk about what she does as a software engineer at Forem, working with the backend, and answering your questions.

We will also be joined by community member Marie Antons who will be pairing with Nick on this open issue.

Keep an eye on ThePracticalDev Twitch channel for our streaming schedule.

P.S. If youre curious about the open Forem issues you can contribute to, check out this post:

Contribute to Forem this Hacktoberfest!

Christina Gorton Oct 2 3 min read

#opensource #meta #hacktoberfest #contributorswanted

P.P.S. Want a refresher on some Hacktoberfest rules, tips, and advice from DEV? Dont miss this post:

Happy Hacktoberfest!

Jess Lee (she/her) Oct 2 4 min read

#hacktoberfest #opensource #meta #contributorswanted