HacktoberFest

Every October, Digital Ocean and GitHub ship out free Hacktoberfest shirts to thousands of people around the world.
This year, Dev.to has also partnered with them to organise the same.
The bottom line in 2019 is this: if you can open 6 pull requests by October 31 .
You can get your own Hacktoberfest T-shirt, and tons of stickers shipped to your door for free.

1: Register for Hacktoberfest

Go to hacktoberfest page to register using your github account.

2: Learn to make a pull request

github doc

3:Contribute to our repo

• Just visit our repo here.
• Add a folder in your name.(click create new file,add your name with a slash at the end).
• Create a Readme.md file with your details in it(click create new file, add Readme.md as the name no back slash).
• Example : click create new file (To keep things clean, try to do it inside the 2019 folder). Enter "2019/yourName"/README.md in the name. Add your content into the folder/file.
• Mark Down - md cheat sheet.

Example:

4: Pull Request

• Click propose new file.
• Click create pull request.

5: Create 4 more pull requests

• You can edit the file you created and make a pull request for that too.
• Just open your file in github and click on the pencil icon , then make the change and repeat step 4.

6: Additionaly, check out the following

• Git and GitHub for Poets
• A small session we hosted at CET