[EdLUG] Hacktoberfest

[Nick Jones]

I’m happy to help out with this - I’ll be participating myself and can help folks navigate the nuances of Git as well as finding suitable issues and how to submit a good quality PRs to upstream projects. 

Also more than happy to get involved organising something for next year. 

— 

-Nick

> On 27 Sep 2019, at 10:53, Tai Kedzierski <dch.tai at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So, I completely failed to remember this year that digitalOcean is
> organising Hacktoberfest, a month-long event to encourage people to
> contribute to open source projects. If you make 4 PRs against a
> project in GitHub, you qualify for a limited edition T-shirt.
> 
> Having a gathering event for enthusiasts to attend and to provide help
> to those getting into free software and open source for the first time
> is a plus...
> 
> So whilst we obviously won't be able to do an event in time for this year,
> 
> 1) I aim to do a workshop on Git and Gitub for beginners sometime in
> October - possibly the first Saturday (in a week's time) so as to help
> give the little extra push. Anybody comfortable enough with git to
> help out at such a session ?
> 
> 2) Let's actually make a proper event of this next year, under the
> EdLUG name ! I'll re-run the Git/Github workshop in September, in
> advance of Hacktoberfest itself , and we can have a coding session in
> a large space; maybe in conjunction with other meetups and sharing the
> cost for taking up CodeBase. Anybody interested in helping do this, do
> let me know.
> 
> 
> ===
> Tai Kedzierski
> Linux Operations and Deployments Engineer
> 
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