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Winning my First Hacktoberfest!

Anil Seervi on October 16, 2021

Hello πŸ‘‹πŸ½ to Everyone reading this. This is my first post on dev.to and I'm so excited to tell the journey of my first Hacktoberfest Event. ...
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Vaibhav

I've received my first Hactoberfest swag

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Anil Seervi

Awesome

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Ben Halpern

Congrats!

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Anil Seervi

Thanks ! ;)

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Arpit Lekhwar

Have you received it?

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Anil Seervi

I've claimed the t-shirt.
It'll probably arrive the destination in December.

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Aditya Sharma

Has it arrived?

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Anil Seervi

Not yet.

You can join their discord to know more.

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Avishka Chandrawansha

Congrats!

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Anil Seervi

Thanks!!

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Ashish Bailkeri

Congratulations!

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Anil Seervi

Thanks πŸ™

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Anil Seervi

Thanks!! πŸŽ‰

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Faizan Khan

Congratulations! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

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Anil Seervi

Thank You! πŸ˜‡

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YAQOAH

Sick!
Could you share some tips to people who are also new to open source? that will help loads and congratulations :)

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Anil Seervi

Yeah sure and thank you.

If you're a beginner, Firstly I suggest you to search for issues labeled good-first-issues , though most of them seem to be taken or assigned to others, it'd be nice if you take a look at how you can take your first step towards claiming your first issue to contribute.

There's no hurry to start big, your contribution can be small as a typo at this moment. You can find many of these on documentational type repos. I recommend you to make 1 or 2 these kind of PRs and not overwhelm maintainers with more as they have many other big things to deal with.

After that, when you've made your first contribution this way, you can search for issues on the repo of the languages and frameworks that you are familiar with. If you are not fully sure of what to do, you can always ask the maintainers on what further steps are needed to be taken ; considering you already know a portion of the solution or even completely.
Always interact with the maintainers as it'll give you more insight :)

Then you'll get the hang of it and probably will also start creating some big issues and solutions.

I hope this you and the beginners to Open-Source.

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Samyuktha Sudhakar

Congratulations πŸ₯³

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Anil Seervi

Thanks! πŸŽ‰