OpenMindsClub Joins Hacktoberfest 2020!

Table of Content:

• What Is Hacktoberfest?
• What Can You Earn?
• How To Make Your First Contribution?
• How To Successfully Complete The Hacktoberfest Challenge?
• Getting Started - Basic
• Getting Started - Advanced
• Tasks and Challenges

Hopefully this event will be the first step in your long journey of contributing to free Open-Source projects!

By hosting Hacktoberfest 2020, OpenMinds Club strives to encourage everyone in contributing to free Open-Source projects as it has been, and will always remain our philosophy and fundamental goal.
This repository is open to anyone and everyone who seeks to contribute in any project they've liked or discovered. As for the beginners, you are welcome to join our Hacktoberfest as well! Make sure you learn more about open source.

There is no contribution that is either too small or insignificant. However, every pull request has to, of course, follow some guidelines mentioned here. All of OpenMinds Club welcomes you among our family, whether to attend our FOSS Talk, Git/Github Workhop, or to complete the Openfest challenges.

Please read our Events Code of Conduct before attending.

Happy Hacking!

What is Hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest — brought to you by DigitalOcean in partnership with Dev — is a month-long celebration of open-source software, open to everyone in our global community. You can help the growth of open source and make positive contributions to the community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenges! ​

What Can You Earn

In addition to having lots of fun, you can earn a limited version t-shirt and ton of hacktoberfest swag if you happen to be among the first 50,000 participants who successfully complete the challenge!

This year in particular, OpenMinds Club is inviting you to participate for chances of winning extra prizes if you succeed to land the first prize in one of the set categories, namely:

• Brave Benefactor: most number of Pull Requests to the repo.
• Story Sensation: most change rate (additions + deletions) to the Open Source Story project.
• Diligent Developer: most number of Pull Requests to projects related to IT.
• Erudite Editor: best video montage in the Montage Contest.
• Logo Looney: best logo design in the Logo Design Contest.
  

Rules:

The best video montage and logo design will be decided by the vote of our community on social media.

Prizes:

• Certificate (Signed and stamped by the president of the OpenMindsClub).
• OpenMindsClub Sticker.
• Exclusive "Contributor" Sticker.
• 2 Guaranteed places for a future event, workshop or course of your choice.
• Github Account Exposure ​
  

To claim the aforementioned prizes, the winners must visit us at our local in USTHB (further details will be specified in an email for that purpose)

How To Make Your First Contribution

You should familiarize yourself with How To Create a Pull Request, check the Getting Started section they can be made in any GitHub-hosted repositories/projects, or attend our Git/Github Workshop! ​

How To Successfully Complete The Hacktoberfest Challenge

To qualify for the official limited edition Hacktoberfest shirt, you must register and then make four pull requests (PRs) between October 1-31 (in any time zone. PRs can be made to any public repo on GitHub. If a maintainer reports your pull request as invalid or as poor behavior opposing the project’s code of conduct, you will become ineligible to participate.

Getting Started Basic

1. Fork this Repo, just click on the Fork button in the top right corner of the page, it'll create an exact copy of this repo in your account.
2. Make a contribution to any section of the repo, if you don't have an exact idea of what you can do, you can start by doing one of tasks below.
3. Commit your changes and leave a short message describing what your changes are about.
4. Create a Pull Request by clicking on the New Pull Request button and fill the PR form, then click Create Pull Request.
5. Voilà! You have just created a Pull Request, your PR will be reviewed and merged to the original repo.
6. Share your changes with your friends and have fun!

Getting Started Advanced

1. Install git.
2. Fork this repo.
3. Clone your fork, this will create a directory holding the name of the repo.

git clone https://github.com/YOURUSERNAME/H4ckT0b3rF3st-2k20.git

4. Go to the cloned directory and make changes.
5. Commit your changes, verify your changes and push to the forked repo.

git add .
git commit -m "My First Commit"
git status
git push origin master

6. Create a PR from the forked repo in your account.
7. Voilà! You have just created a Pull Request, your PR will be reviewed by one of our maintainers and merged to the original repo.
8. Share your changes with your friends and have fun!

Tasks and Challenges

1. Add your name

Add your name to the CONTRIBUTORS.md file.

#### [your-username](https://github.com/your-username)

2. Add a profile page

Add a Your_Full_Name.md file to the profiles directory. Use any combination of content and Markdown.

3. MyOctocat Challenge

Make a unique design for Octocat and share it with the rest of the world!

4. Solve one of the challenges in the repo

There are plenty of empty projects in the repo, read the README.md file in of the projects and try to code what it says.

5. Solve an issue

Go to the issues section by clicking on the Issues button on the top of the page and try to solve one of the issues.

6. Add your own project

You have an idea and you wanna make it happen? start coding and push your project to the /projects directory in the repo.

HAVE A SPOOKY FEST !

Hacktoberfest participants, so far, have represented 151 countries and thousands of unique skill-sets. Its program welcomes everyone already in the open source software community – and, of course, anyone interested in diving in!