gsoc-organizations VS hacktoberfest

Check this out for organizations. As for selecting project, you will need to talk to the Mentors/Maintainers.

Insightful session, we were informed about programs like Hacktoberfest, GSoC, Outreachy, Google Summer of Docs. Then we were informed about a tool (https://www.gsocorganizations.dev/) that helps in selecting organizations for gsoc.

Participate in Open Source Programs like GSOC(Google Summer Of Code) ,Digital Ocean Hacktoberfest, MLH Fellowship , GSSOC(I was part of it) and many more.

There couldn't be a better start for your open-source journey than HacktoberFest. It's an annual open-source event where project maintainers await your contributions, and they prepare their projects to accept new contributors.

✔️ 1 month long-October ✔️ Open to all ✔️ Swags ✔️ You can do it! Get more info 👉 [https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/]

I would start at First Timers Only and see what they have that you can do. Every October there is Hacktober, and they have a good page for getting started in Open Source.

Just off the top of my head, hacktoberfest is a thing every October that lists how and where to get into open source. https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/

Snek Me and about 70 new programmers made this for Hacktoberfest. You should think about doing Hacktoberfest in October. They'll send you some free stickers and a T-Shirt and it will look good on your resume.

It's late fall 2020 and Hacktoberfest came along. I looked at the website and something caught my attention.

Hacktoberfest is a month-long event happening every October, in which we have to make four or more valid pull requests to public Github repositories. When we accomplish that, we will be eligible to get a limited edition Hacktoberfest T-shirt or we can choose to donate a tree.

While in college, I had heard about this amazing month long celebration for open-source called hacktoberfest where if you make a certain number of contributions to any open-source repository(ies) and your changes are accepted (via pull-requests), you could get swags like T-shirts, stickers and other things. This was interesting for me as:

The upcoming blogs will focus on Open Source Guide, Open Source Education and my experience participating in the Hacktoberfest 2020 Challenge. Meanwhile you can learn how to Get Started with contributing to Open Source Projects.