Ahmad Awais
As a full-time #OpenSourcerer — October is one of my favorite months. And it’s October already. Today’s #OneDevMinute is about #Hacktoberfest — it’s a month-long online event where you signup at GitHub.com and Hacktoberfest to celebrate Open Source by contributing at least four times between the October 1-31. Let me help you get started.
Good folks from DigitalOcean, GitHub, and this time the Dev.to team will track your open source contributions, help you stay motivated, and upon four successful GitHub pull-requests — you’ll receive swag items like a limited edition T-Shirt, stickers, and maybe a few discount codes.
😇 Open source is for everyone, it’s not just code — developers, designers, marketers, and content writers, basically anyone can participate. Improve an open-source project’s documentation, refactor code, gift that project a new logo design — just participate and celebrate open source in October.
# Step #0: Create an account on GitHub.com
# Step #0: Signup at https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/.
# Step #1: Fork any open source GitHub repo.
# Step #2: Clone that repo in your PC. E.g.
git clone https://github.com/AhmadAwais/Hacktoberfest
# Step #3: Make changes and commit/push these changes.
git add .
git commit -m "📦 NEW: Resource for learning Git"
git push
# Step #4: Go to your fork, click open `Pull Request` link and create a PR.Learn to write good and useful git commit messages using the emoji-log project. Star the repo and read the docs on Emoji Log.
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Founder & CEO of ⌘ Command Code coding agent with taste. Founded Langbase.com, AI cloud to build, deploy, and scale AI agents with tools & memory · Creator of Command.new.
"Awais is an awesome example for developers" — Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.
NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission code contributor 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient with 5x GitHub Stars Award (Listed as GitHub's #1 JavaScript trending developer). Google Developers Expert Web DevRel.
Ex VP Eng (DevTools & DevRel) Rapid · Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member · AI/ML/DevTools Angel Investor (Replit, Resend, Daytona, Gumroad and you?) ❯ AI/ML Advisory Board San Francisco, DevNetwork.
Award-winning Open Source Engineering leader authored hundreds of open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers, including Shades of Purple code theme and corona-cli.
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