HACKTOBERFEST-2022-GDSC-IET-LUCKNOW

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Beginner-Hacktoberfest

Need Your first pr for hacktoberfest 2k22 ? come on in

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Participate in Hacktoberfest by contributing to any Open Source project on GitHub! Here is a starter project for first-time contributors.
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❓ What's Hacktoberfest 2022?

Hacktoberfest is the easiest way to get into open source! Hacktoberfest is a month long festival of open source code presented by Digital Ocean and DEV this year in 2022.

During the entire month of October 2022, all you have to do is contribute to any open source projects and open at least 4 pull requests. Yes, any project and any kind of contributions. It can be a be a bug fix, improvement, or even a documentation change! And win a T-Shirt and awesome stickers.

If you’ve never contributed to open source before, this is the perfect time to get started because Hacktoberfest provides a large list of available contribution opportunities (and yes, there are always plenty for beginners too).

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👕 Why Should I Contribute?

Hacktoberfest has a simple and plain moto.

Support open source and earn a limited edition T-shirt!

So, yes! You can win a T-Shirt and few awesome stickers to attach on your laptop. On plus side, you will get into beautiful world of open source and get the international exposure.
Wait there's more!

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👍 This is Awesome! How Can I Contribute?

Note-

This is general Repo which is meant for learning the basics about open source contributions,If you want to contribute to techstack specific repo then please refer below links for begginer freindly repos for HacktoberFest 2022: Link

Don't know how to start of open source and Contribute to our Open Source Project ? Welcome to the world of hacking!

The steps to follow to contribute to any projects:

1. If you don't have git on your machine, install it.

2. Fork this repository

   Fork this repository by clicking on the fork button on the top of this page. This will create a copy of this repository in your account.

3. Clone the repository

   Now clone the forked repository to your machine. Go to your GitHub account, open the forked repository, click on the code button and then click the copy to clipboard icon.

   Open a terminal and run the following git command:

   git clone "url you just copied"
   

4. Add a upstream link to main branch in your cloned repo

   git remote add upstream <original repository>
   

5. Keep your cloned repo upto date by pulling from upstream

   This will also avoid any merge conflicts while committing new changes

   git pull upstream main
   

6. Create your feature branch

   Always create new branch

   git checkout -b <feature-github username>
   

7. Add your awesome Personel Project in Projects dicrectory according to the techstack that you have used.

8. Fill this block with necessary info of yourself.

   "name": {YOUR_NAME},
   "batch": {YOUR_BATCH_COMMENCEMENT_YEAR},
   "picture_url": {PICTURE_CDN_URL},
   "personel_project": {YOUR_PERSONEL_PROECT's_LINK},
   "github": {YOUR_GITHUB_PROFILE_LINK},
   "linkedin": {YOUR_LINKEDIN_PROFILE_LINK},
   "quote": {QUOTE_WHICH_DEFINES_YOU}
   

9. To get your PICTURE_CDN_URL head over to https://imgbb.com/ and upload one of your nice looking image and get's it's url

10. Add the above filled block to the data array in data.json file

11. Track your changes

```
git add data.json
```

12. Check for your changes.

```
git status
```

13. Commit all the changes

Write commit message as "Small Message"
```
git commit -m "Add {YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME} information"
```

14. Push the changes for review

    git push origin <branch-name>
    

15. Create a PR on Github.

    Just hit the create a pull request button, you must write a PR message to clarify why and what are you contributing
    

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🔥 What will happen after my contribution?

Your name should appear shortly in Contributor list down after the pull request is merged.

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