HacktoberFest Starter Project

Use this project to make your first contribution to an open source project on GitHub. Practice making your first pull request to a public repository before doing the real thing!

Celebrate Hacktoberfest by getting involved in the open source community by completing some simple tasks in this project.

This repository is open to all members of the GitHub community. Any member may contribute to this project without being a collaborator.

What is Hacktoberfest?

Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a seasoned contributor or looking for projects to contribute to for the first time, you’re welcome to participate.

Pull requests can be made in any GitHub-hosted repositories/projects. As long as the project is public and GitHub-hosted, your pull requests will count toward your participation.

You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31. Just be sure to sign up on the official Hacktoberfest website for your pull requests to count.

Participation rules

To get a shirt, you must make four pull requests (PRs) between October 1–31 in any time zone. Pull requests can be to any public repository on GitHub, not just the ones highlighted. The pull request must contain commits you made yourself. If a maintainer reports your pull request as spam, it will not be counted toward your participation in Hacktoberfest. If a maintainer reports behavior that’s not in line with the project’s code of conduct, you will be ineligible to participate. This year, the first 75,000 participants can earn a T-shirt.

How to contribute to this project

Here are 3 quick and painless ways to contribute to this project:

• Add your name to the CONTRIBUTORS.md file
• Add a profile page to the profiles directory
• Create a simple "Hello, World" script in a language of your choice

Choose one or all 3, make a pull request for your work and wait for it to be merged!

Getting started

• Fork this repository (Click the Fork button in the top right of this page, click your Profile Image)
• Clone your fork down to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/your-username/hacktoberfest.git

• Create a branch

git checkout -b branch-name

• Make your changes (choose from any task below)
• Commit and push

git add .
git commit -m 'Commit message'
git push origin branch-name

• Create a new pull request from your forked repository (Click the New Pull Request button located at the top of your repo)
• Wait for your PR review and merge approval!
• Star this repository if you had fun!

Make all steps and from these tasks

1. Add your name

Add your name to the CONTRIBUTORS.md file using the below convention:

#### Name: [YOUR NAME](GitHub link)
- Place: City, State, Country
- Bio: Who are you?
- GitHub: [GitHub account name](GitHub link)

2. Add a profile page

Add a Your_Name.md file to the profiles directory. Use any combination of content and Markdown you'd like. Here is an example:

# Your Name

### Location

Your City/Country

### Academics

Your School

### Interests

- Some Things You Like

### Development

- Inventor of the My Pillow

### Projects

- [My Project](GitHub Link) Short Description

### Profile Link

[Your Name](GitHub Link)

3. Create a Hello, World! Script

Add a hello_world_yourusername.xx script to the scripts directory in any language of your choice! Here is an example:

// LANGUAGE: Javascript
// ENV: Node.js
// AUTHOR: YOUR NAME
// GITHUB: https://github.com/YOUR_REPOSITORY

console.log('Hello, World!');

Name the file hello_world_yourusername.xx. e.g., hello_world_loracsilva.js or hello_world_loracsilva.py.

Don't forget to include the comments as seen above. Feel free to include additional information about the language you choose in your comments too! Like a link to a helpful introduction or tutorial.

Here is my hello_world example: [hello_world_loracsilva.js]

Reference links

Here is a great tutorial for creating your first pull request by Roshan Jossey: https://github.com/Roshanjossey/first-contributions

Managing your Forked Repo: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/

Syncing a Fork: https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/

Keep Your Fork Synced: https://gist.github.com/CristinaSolana/1885435

Checkout this list for README examples - Awesome README

Github-Flavored Markdown https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/

Additional references added by contributors

GitHub license explained https://choosealicense.com