** Oct 24th Update: THIS REPO IS TEMPORARILY NOT MERGING NEW PRs until the CONTRIBUTORS.md file is sorted! Thanks for your patience! **
Use this project to make your first contribution to an open source project on GitHub. Practice making your first pull request to a public repository before doing the real thing!
Celebrate Hacktoberfest by getting involved in the open source community by completing some simple tasks in this project.
This repository is open to all members of the GitHub community. Any member may contribute to this project without being a collaborator.
https://alicewonderland.github.io/hacktoberfest/
A month-long celebration from October 1st - 31st sponsored by Digital Ocean and GitHub to get people involved in Open Source. Create your very first pull request to any public repository on GitHub and contribute to the open source developer community.
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
Here are 3 quick and painless ways to contribute to this project:
- Add your name to the
CONTRIBUTORS.md
file - Add a profile page to the
profiles
directory - Create a simple "Hello, World" script in a language of your choice
Choose one or all 3, make a pull request for your work and wait for it to be merged!
- Fork this repository (Click the Fork button in the top right of this page, click your Profile Image)
- Clone your fork down to your local machine
git clone https://github.com/your-username/hacktoberfest.git
- Create a branch
git checkout -b branch-name
- Make your changes (choose from any task below)
- Commit and push
git add .
git commit -m 'Commit message'
git push origin branch-name
- Create a new pull request from your forked repository (Click the
New Pull Request
button located at the top of your repo) - Wait for your PR review and merge approval!
- Star this repository if you had fun!
Add your name to the CONTRIBUTORS.md
file using the below convention:
#### Name: [YOUR NAME](GitHub link)
- Place: City, State, Country
- Bio: Who are you?
- GitHub: [GitHub account name](GitHub link)
Add a Your_Name.md
file to the profiles
directory. Use any combination of content and Markdown you'd like. Here is an example:
# Your Name
### Location
Your City/Country
### Academics
Your School
### Interests
- Some Things You Like
### Development
- Inventor of the My Pillow
### Projects
- [My Project](GitHub Link) Short Description
### Profile Link
[Your Name](GitHub Link)
Add a hello_world_yourusername.xx
script to the scripts
directory in any language of your choice! Here is an example:
// LANGUAGE: Javascript
// ENV: Node.js
// AUTHOR: Alice Chuang
// GITHUB: https://github.com/AliceWonderland
console.log('Hello, World!');
Name the file hello_world_yourusername.xx
. e.g., hello_world_alicewonderland.js
or hello_world_alicewonderland.py
.
Don't forget to include the comments as seen above. Feel free to include additional information about the lanuage you chose in your comments, too, like a link to a helpful introduction or tutorial.
hello_world_alicewonderland.js
- See profiles submitted by fellow coders from around the globe ... from Kathmandu to Copenhagen.
- Discover some obscure to new and trending languages ... from BrainFuck to Groovy.
- Check out some very creative ways to print out a "Hello, World!" string.
Here is a great tutorial for creating your first pull request by Roshan Jossey: https://github.com/Roshanjossey/first-contributions
Managing your Forked Repo: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/
Syncing a Fork: https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/
Keep Your Fork Synced: https://gist.github.com/CristinaSolana/1885435
Checkout this list for README examples - Awesome README
Github-Flavored Markdown https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/
GitHub license explained https://choosealicense.com