My #Hacktoberfest Goals

#javascript #hacktoberfest #github #devjournal

Every year Digital Ocean puts on a hackathon in October called Hacktoberfest and this year they are partnering with DEV. As some may remember last October was the very end of my nanodegree program so I didn’t participate.

WHY I’M PARTICIPATING
I’ve been wanting to get into open source for a couple months now to be able to use the skills I’ve been learning and interact with others’ code again since I miss that and I feel as though participating in something globally, like Hacktoberfest, will help motivate me to actually start.

Since it is my first time doing open source I’m going to start off with easier issues, but would I really be me if I didn’t add on more goals for myself?

HACKTOBERFEST GOALS:
Contribute to one climate change- based project
Do one PR where I have to learn something new
One contribution using C++ (if I fail on any this will be it since it’s a super new language to me)
One contribution utilizing React or Vue frameworks

What are your October goals? Who else is participating? Have you contributed to open source before?

Full text here: https://jkimexploring.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/hacktoberfest-2019/

Top comments (10)

Jason C. McDonald • Oct 7 '19

Hey, you may consider adding the #devjournal tag, as it's specifically for public journaling type posts, such as goal sharing. :) (It's also a better fit then #opensource, which is specifically for open source philosophy.)

JkImExploring • Oct 8 '19

Thanks for the tips! I hadn't seen the #devjournal tag before!

ItsASine (Kayla) • Oct 2 '19

Improve upon a dataset (I already have a repo in mind -- ends up their master list is an xlsx and then it's split out using R, though, so I need to get on a real computer ((not Chromebook with gitpod)) to update the xlsx and generate the other files).
Update test coverage in a repo
While I know it's not considered good faith to do a Hacktoberfest against your own repos, I do kinda need to rewrite my SAS project in R. Which would allow me to get better at R and make the project more useful to anyone who stumbles upon it in open-source land since SAS is paid software.
I'll come up with it later :P I'm thinking of trying to look back at any issues I've logged in repos and see if I can fix them myself.

JkImExploring • Oct 8 '19

Those are good goals! I'm sure you'll make the four easily!

Juan F Gonzalez • Oct 3 '19

Hey Jenna, great goals you have there!
Welcome to the wonderful world of Open Source hehe.

In my case is my second Hacktoberfest that I'm participating in so my goals are more related to actually making a meaningful contribution to some projects other than adding a snippet of code in a multilanguage repo or a hello world repo lol.

I second the contribution to a React repo since I'm a front-end guy :p and also I'm looking to see if I can help to improve the layout and a11y of some sites.

JkImExploring • Oct 3 '19

I will admit my C++ contribution is probably going to be in a repo that does HackerRank problems. But hopefully next year I'll know enough to do more with it.

Those are some great goals! A11y is so important and falls to the side way too much. Good luck!