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October 18, 2021 08:42 am GMT

First Open Source Contribution Doesn't Have To Be Hard.

It's October and we all know what it's all about - Hacktoberfest. People are busy celebrating open-source and making contributions.

Contributions? Wondering how to get started with your first open-source contribution? You're in the right place! Keep scrolling...
Let's get to it step by step

So what exactly is Hacktoberfest?

Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean in partnership with GitHub and Twilio. It encourages participation in the open source community, which grows bigger every year.

Complete the challenge by contributing and getting 4 pull requests merged and earn a limited edition T-shirt. It is open to everyone in our global community! Four quality pull requests must be submitted to public GitHub repositories.

  • Don't know how to use git/github?

Sounds cool?

Now it's time for your first step!

Mashithandu

GitHub logo tinkerhubmace / mashithandu

A repo for beginners to do their first contribution in GitHub

mashithandu

mashithandu

Table of contents

About this repo

This is a repo for beginners to experience the path of open source contribution

Students Instructions

Fork this repo

Create a fork of this repo to your account.

 search StackOverflow on how to Fork a repo in GitHub

Contribute

Add your contribution to the repo by editing the contents of the folder with your campus name.

 Contact your campus lead for exact instructions

Create a pull request

After committing and pushing your changes go to your fork and create


Celebrating this ,
Make your First contribution to the Mashithandu project.

Here is how to contribute to Mashithandu...

Step 1: Head over to this link and simply follow the instructions provided there.
Step 2: There is no step 2... It's easy as that!

Loved contributing? How about one more then?

WikiSyllabus

GitHub logo gtechatfg / WikiSyllabus

A collaborative project to build an evolving website/wiki to host, enhance, link, extend & update the university syllabus to help students find a way to connect their education to whats new in the industry.

WikiSyllabus : Take your syllabus online

All Contributors

A collaborative project to build an evolving website/wiki to host, enhance, link, extend & update the university syllabus to help students find a way to connect their education to whats new in the industry.

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!




WikiSyllabus is a collaborative project to build an evolving website/wiki to host, enhance, link, extend & update the university syllabus to help students find a way to connect their education to whats new in the industry.
Head over to this link for further instructions on how to contribute!

Love OpenSource?

Here are some more repos to contribute
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/resources/beginners

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