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hacktoberfest
Discontinued Hacktoberfest - App to manage the annual open-source challenge, used for the 2019 & 2020 seasons. (by digitalocean)
A lot of projects on GitHub aim to make first-time contributors less scared of this. For example, the repository First Contributions aims to help you make that first contribution you are so scared of by making a simple change to the repository and guiding you in details on how to submit the PR. This is great and really helpful, but when you go to make a contribution to a repository that requires more real work, you still find it a little hard to contribute to it.
Long story short, now (at the time of posting this) the repository has 176 stars and 445 forks, 204 contributors, an NPM package, and an awesome new renovated website.
And the number of contributors grew to maybe 60 which was a big deal to me! And then Hacktoberfest started, and for those of you who don't know, it's an annual event for developers that encourage contributing to open source projects by offering swag as a prize for your contributions. Developers all around the world participate and it is a big event for everyone.