notes.md

Values

• Everyone is welcome!
• Quantity is fun, quality is key!
• Short-term actions, long-term impact!

Quality standards

In line with Hacktoberfest value #2 (Quantity is fun, quality is key), here are examples of the PRs that we consider to be low-quality contributions (which we discourage).

• PRs that are automated (e.g. scripted opening PRs to remove whitespace/optimize images)

• PRs that are disruptive (e.g. taking someone else's branch/commits and making a PR)

• PRs that are regarded by a project maintainer as a hindrance vs. helping

• Something that's clearly an attempt to simply +1 your PR count for October

• Last but not least, one PR to fix a typo is fine. 5 PRs to remove a stray whitespace... not.

• Spammy PRs can be labeled as “invalid.”

• There’s a seven-day review window for PRs.

• Bad repositories will be excluded. (see https://github.com/hacktoberfest-team?tab=overview&from=2019-09-01&to=2019-09-30)

Find a repo

@TODO: Sort into "beginner", "inermediate" and "advanced"

• https://www.firsttimersonly.com

• http://yourfirstpr.github.io/

• https://up-for-grabs.net/

• http://issuehub.io/

• https://gauger.io/contrib/

• https://www.codetriage.com

• http://www.pullrequestroulette.com

• https://github.com/topics/hacktoberfest

Check peoples progress

• https://github.com/jenkoian/hacktoberfest-checker

Guides

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorial_series/an-introduction-to-open-source
• https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/

Awesome lists

• https://github.com/mungell/awesome-for-beginners
• https://github.com/mattjegan/awesome-hacktoberfest
• https://github.com/OtacilioN/awesome-hacktoberfest-2019

Swag lists

• https://devswag.io/?tags=hacktoberfest
• https://dev.to/m1guelpf/hacktoberfest-2019-swag-list-3ajg
• https://hacktoberfestswaglist.com (https://github.com/crweiner/hacktoberfest-swag-list)

Hacktober history

• Google Images for past Hacktoberfests