How Open Source helped me get into the GitHub Octernships program.

• freeCodeCamp

  39 387,899 10.0 TypeScript

  freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum. Learn to code for free.

  

I started open source software development a few months into my last internship, after one of my colleagues suggested it. When I made my first open source contribution, I realized how much of an impact I could create with this work, especially because of the size of the org I contributed to. My first PR was a feature that I added to the freeCodeCamp codebase; this repo has the highest number of stars on GitHub! I made this contribution in October, and to my surprise, I got an email in December informing me that I was one of the top contributors of 2022 to the freeCodeCamp codebase because of this contribution! I was elated and the sense of satisfaction that I got from this feat was something that I had not experienced before. freeCodeCamp was also the first open source community I was a part of, interacting with the maintainers in their Discord server daily to get my PRs merged and learn more about the codebase!

• browser-extension

  1 27 5.6

  This is the template repo for the OpenSauced browser extension assignment. (by open-sauced-craftwork)

  

While going through the available Octernships, even though I was interested in almost all of them, I really liked the vision and tech behind one, the Octernships with OpenSauced. I read the problem statement, which is available here, and applied immediately because of the impact I knew I would be able to create. We were making a chrome extension for OpenSauced that would bridge the gap between the platform and GitHub, this would help onboard many open source developers to the platform and reduce friction. There was one problem though, I never built a chrome extension before this, so I thought it’ll be difficult to get selected. But I was wrong. Thanks to the CEO and Founder of OpenSauced, Brian, the project’s README was all that I needed to set up a chrome extension and get creative!

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

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