TL;DR: Register to the Hacktoberfest challenge, make 4 vaild Pull requests (PRs) on public repos on GitHub during the month of October and win a Limited Edition T-Shirt or have a Tree planted!
🔗 Link to Micro Club's hacktoberfest-2k20 GitHub Pages / Repo Website
Hello there, we are Micro Club, a computer science student club at USTHB and we're taking part in Hacktoberfest for our 3rd consicutive year!
Founded in March the 5th,1985 as the first scientific club in Algeria, Micro Club is operating as a scientific student club and a nonprofit organization that aims at popularizing computer science, IT and technology fields among the student community and extended to all those willing to learn and share their knowledge. Thus we put this repo at disposition to anyone willing to learn and share their knowledge while contributing to the open source community while having a fun challenge !!
Micro Club will host online meetup events, workshops, update projects and challenges and more during the month of October! Stay tuned!
Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source from October 1st - 31st every year. It's been around for 7 years and it is presented by Digital Ocean, Inc and sponsored by GitHub to get people involved in Open Source.
The first 70,000 people around the world to complete 4 valid pull requests contribution to any public repo (including this one) will recieve a FREE LIMITED EDITON T-SHIRT & COOL SWAGS! or can chose to have a TREE!
Event partners of this 7th edition of Hacktoberfest:
The open source community platform dedicated to devs! It is built on the open source project "forem" (a crossover between Medium & Twitter for devs!) Check DEV's challenge.
has joined the Hacktoberfest celebration this year to build on this foundation along with hundreds of thousands of software engineers around the world. Checkout Intel's Challenge.
- AND MORE! Check them out on hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com
For more info about the event: Hacktoberfest event website
- Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in the global community!
- Pull requests can be made in any GitHub-hosted repositories/projects.
- Sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.
- There are lots of Online Meetup Events during month of October. Check event list
Sign up and complete the Hacktoberfest challenge and:
- Win a Limited Edition Tee Shirt!
- Or have a Tree planted in honor to your success!
- Learn how to contribute to open source!
- Learn new technology and share your knowledge with others!
- Be part of a global community!
Create your very first Pull Request to any public repository on GitHub (including this one) and contribute to the open source developer community.
Before you start, make sure to read the CONTRIBUTION rules.
- Make sure to first Registister in the Hacktoberfest Challenge
- Fork this repo
- Check the Issues📌, find interesting contribution requests.
- Issues labbeled 🔖 "good first issue 🔰" are begginers-friendly
- Issues labbeled 🔖 "Hacktoberfest" are all related to the event (helps you out)
- Make your contribution (add project, fix bug🐛, add feature✨, documentation📝 ...).
Please refer to the HACKTOBERFEST CHALLENGES LIST
- You can do all challenges at once.
- You can do more challenges (keep an eye on the Issues)
- make a Pull Request to this very original repo and wait for maintainers to merge it!
- You can do one (1) Pull request / challenge to cumulate score!
That's it! If your PR passes the review, it will be merged and you can check your Hacktoberfest profile progress to confirm it!
If you learned something new or liked the experience, click the star button to star this repo!
Please DO NOT submit random Pull Requests. First check the CONTRIBUTING.md file to see the rules and directives of contribution on this repo!
PRs that do not follow the contribution rules won't be accepted and will be labbeled as invalid ❌ which won't count in the Hacktoberfest channelge
Happy hacking!!
Want to get started with a step by step tutorial for contributing, using different tools? You can check the Tutorials
Click to expand tutorial list
These tutorials will help you familiarize with the tools you'll be using to contribute to repo's on GitHub but also to teach you about version control system (VCS) that you can use to manage, structure and organize your different projects, even non-dev projects!
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List of Challenges & Tasks: (See full list here)
Please refer to List of Challenges for full details. It will be updated progressively to include more fun contribution challenges and projects for all levels (Youngling > Jedi Master) and all different study fields and skill sets (not just for programmers/coders)!
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These tasks are to be done after you finish your 4 valid pull requests!
Build your own Octocat!
- Step 1: Go to MyOctocat
- Step 2: Create your Octocat: Design, syle and accessorize it.
- Step 3: Save your Octocat: chose .png file, name it
username_OctocatName.pnge.g:Microclubist_CutieCat.png. - Step 4: Share it! Upload the file to
/myOctocatfolder and make a pull request!
We may print your octocat as sticker for upcoming events or share it on social media! So make it look good and stay tuned!
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Step 1: Got to DEV
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Step 2: Create an acount using your GitHub (it will give you a pecial Hacktoberfest Badge!)
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Step 3: Write an article ( ~500 words) about your hacktoberfest experience.
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Step 4: Mention your contribution to Micro Club's repo, you can link your pull request & issue urls (you can even add your octocat to the blog articl ;)
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Step 5: Send us a link and share it on LinkedIn, Twitter & other media and we'll give you a special shoutout on our social media!
We may share certain projects, contributions and articles on our social media as a shout out to selected contributors!
- Up for Grabs Explore open source projects and jump in!
- Issuehub.io Contribute to Open Source. Search issue labels to find the right project for you!
- First Timers Only Friendly Open Source projects should reserve specific issues for newbies.
- Awesome First PR Opportunities A list of awesome beginner-friendly projects.
- 📧 Email: [email protected]
- Discord: Micro Club Community Guild
- LinkedIn Page: Micro Club
- LinkedIn Contact: Micro Club USTHB
- Facebook: Micro Club USTHB
- GitHub Pages / Repo Website microclub-usthb.github.io/Hacktoberfest-2k20