My Journey with Hacktoberfest 2024

What is Hacktoberfest?

• For those who don't know what hacktoberfest is, let me give you a brief overview.

Hacktoberfest is a month long event sponsored by DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, and Quira. The primary function of hacktoberfest is to promote open-source and gather more people to join the community.

How did I come across Hacktoberfest?

After starting my Zem - Series Projects this year, I was deeply motivated with open source and wanted to increase my knowledge of Git and Github. I first saw the word "hacktoberfest" through a blog in September this year. I decided to dig deeper into this topic, and learnt more about Hacktoberfest and how I could register.

How I completed Hacktoberfest?

Opening my first Pull - Request (PR) took me a little bit more time than assumed due to Hacktoberfest's excluded Repositories. I opened my first PR on the repo below in which I uploaded a cofee machine animation through html and css.

• https://github.com/you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-JavaScript/pull/508

I continued to contribute to more open source projects and opening as many PR's as I could. You can view my PRs below:

• https://github.com/C0D1NG/Profile/pull/88

• https://github.com/Gyanthakur/Dev_Profiles/pull/147

• https://github.com/abhisek247767/Hello-World/pull/33

• https://github.com/rajatuiwebdev/badge-website/pull/86

• https://github.com/LoginRadius/awesome-login-pages/pull/182

After submitting enough PRs, I waited impatiently for Hacktoberfest's final review which took about almost 7 days for all my PRs. When my final PR was approved, I earned the last and final badge on Holopin to complete my badges.

What's Next?

After hacktoberfest, I now hope to continue contributing to open source projects as well as making my projects beginner friendly for all users to contribute to!

Hope you found the blog helpful!
Hemang Yadav (Zemerik)