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Hacktoberfest Contributing Discussion 🔥 How can you help? #10186

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Tlazypanda opened this issue Sep 20, 2021 · 21 comments
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Hacktoberfest Contributing Discussion 🔥 How can you help? #10186

Tlazypanda opened this issue Sep 20, 2021 · 21 comments

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@Tlazypanda
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Tlazypanda commented Sep 20, 2021 •
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Hey Everyone! 👋

We are thinking of participating in Hacktoberfest and for that we need to lay down some community rules and share some ideas to get the momentum going for Hacktoberfest 🎉

Please feel free to share your ideas on what we should do. You can help out by -

  • Creating ftos using Adding new strings for Translation #9945 or for normal bug fixes which we will be tagging as hacktoberfest issues later
  • Creating markdown documentation for the participants (hacktoberfest specific contributing guidelines)
  • Sharing any resources for us to look into and follow
  • Sharing about this on social platforms to engage more participants

Hoping for the community members to join hands & celebrate the spirit of Hacktoberfest 💯
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@ZacharyGillmore, @noi5e, @jywarren, @Jon-Jos, @chicken-biryani, @comic-dev, @Vishal01-git, @Hina-softwareEngineer, @arnab-2001, @StephNathai, @dependabot[bot], @DalilaBA, @sandipanpanda, @Ishan2077, @suryablaster, @Ash-KODES, @RazaKhanGit, @17sushmita, @Onyinye91-ctrl, @imajit, @sorutifokkusu, @poojap10, @TildaDares, @anirudhprabhakaran3, @daemon1024, @om2137, @Quado1, @daksh10110, @DinSanGun, @micahweston, @aummishra, @Manasa2850, @vacom13, @luckych8080, @hrishikeshnikam2000, @atayl16, @roshni-patel, @saraswathy-krish, @adrnna

@shloka-gupta
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Hey,

I would love to help out.

Just a question...

Can we clarify our ideas under this issue itself that, "Hey I think this can be a first good issue."... or over Gitter... or... Just create the issue, and if it's relevant it would be good to go else it'd just get closed?

You know till we get a hang of creating a good fto issue.

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xJonJos commented Sep 20, 2021 •
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Wow great! @Tlazypanda 😁

Can someone shed light 💡 on these queries...

(1/2)
Which are the

  1. languages
  2. tools
  3. frameworks
  4. libraries
  5. toolkits
    6 . ...
    7 . ....

a contributor must learn! in Public Lab?

(2/2)
Which are the areas Public Lab currently need code development (bug fixes, improvement)?

and which are the technologies used in that specific area ?

🚀 Hacktoberfest 2021 🌳🌳🌳

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noi5e commented Sep 20, 2021

Yay, this is exciting @Tlazypanda, thanks for opening!

Can we clarify our ideas under this issue itself that, "Hey I think this can be a first good issue."... or over Gitter... or... Just create the issue, and if it's relevant it would be good to go else it'd just get closed?

@chicken-biryani Either one is fine!

@Jon-Jos, definitely Rails and JavaScript! We have almost 600 issues open, so plenty of places to start 😅

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@Tlazypanda ty so much for getting this going! Let's think about marking FTOs without using the first-timers-only label /yet/ so they don't get snapped up? We could also leave a comment that could later be deleted maybe...

@chicken-biryani we do have a fto-candidate label which we use to mark "almost done" FTOs before they get the official label. They they could get reviewed by @noi5e @Tlazypanda or myself (or other past code community coordinators if they're around) before getting the final label? If that sounds good to you? Once you've written/prepared one all the way through, you're probably good to make others on your own though.

@Jon-Jos great questions. We have some pretty thorough introductions up at https://code.publiclab.org, our welcome page. You actually don't have to know any of those things to participate in a first-timers-only issue, although as @noi5e says, JavaScript or Ruby could help. We try our best to offer a very low-barrier starting point for newcomers!

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Hello! This is great.

I think we can expand on the present CONTRIBUTING.md to make a better document for anyone who is actually interested in Hacktoverfest. That way we can get higher quality PRs and issues can be solved better.

@unnati914
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Hello!
Thanks for opening this, really excited for this. We can actually have a blog stating what publiclab does(I know we already have it on the website) but this can be a good fto for new comers, these can help them in their technical skills as well. And we can actually share this on socials too and ways to contribute ofcourse!
Let me know any suggestions or improvements if any :)

@DalilaBA
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Awsome thank you @Tlazypanda, there is so many good ideas over here, I'm happy to help, there is a lot of work on the translation files that can be used as FTOs
But I do have some questions about the translations, how can we change the language on the Dev side since we don't have the functionality on the footer ?

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Great decision @Tlazypanda of participating in Hacktoberfest , this will help many open source enthusiast to know about publiclab.
And i can help you by spreading about this in my community.

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Awesome suggestions from everyone here 💯 Great collaboration team ✌️

Apart from opening Hacktoberfest issues (tagged without FTO tag as @jywarren suggested to prevent them from being taken up) Here is how I think we can get started utilizing all the diverse skills we all possess -

  • @Vishal01-git would love your support in spreading in your circle 💯 probably after we are done with setting up the issues
  • @DalilaBA Appreciate all the help that we can get on the translations ✌️ And to answer your question this is how to check locally /change_locale/es
  • Maybe @anirudhprabhakaran3 and @unnati914 would you be interested to work on the contributing guidelines specific for hacktoberfest you can refer https://hacktoberfestswaglist.com/contributing 🎈
  • @Jon-Jos maybe while you are navigating through our onboarding process you can point out areas of improvement for the same? 🤲
  • @chicken-biryani as @jywarren suggested definitely create the issue and we are here if you need help of any kind 🌞

Thank you all for this amazing team spirit! Y'all are amazing 💙

@DalilaBA
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@Tlazypanda got it, I'll get into it as soon as I get home 😁

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om2137 commented Sep 22, 2021

Hey,
I did FTO and had my first PR merged here at Public lab, very new to contributing to open source. But would love to help out, if there is anything to be get done.

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atayl16 commented Sep 22, 2021 via email

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@Tlazypanda working on the doc

@jywarren
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Yay and welcome folks! One thing that really helps is if we can encourage newcomers to help other newcomers. If there are open FTOs and people seem a bit stuck, or just need encouragement, that's really helpful!

I don't know if we can make Hacktoberfest issues which encourage this, but even outside of Hacktoberfest, this is a really critical area of support which newcomers are really good at -- because they know what it's like! And have the most recent experience of overcoming the challenges of contributing!

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Hello everyone!

I have prepared a document for guidelines for Hacktoberfest. It would be great if y'all could go through it, and provide feedback - anything that I missed out on or should add!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w3Y_Xy4MJEeV6rxK9qorsMcFLYj2lVY785hMUYtvHJo/edit?usp=sharing

I'll be making this into an MD file so that it can be merged into the codebase.

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ebarry commented Sep 27, 2021

Thank you! Looks great as far as i can tell! I added a line near the top to link to code.publiclab.org

@shloka-gupta
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Hey,
@Tlazypanda and @noi5e ,
I hope you're doing well.

Are there any particular guidelines/posters I could circulate around for hacktoberfest or in general?

I am sure there are people in our universities who are looking to contribute and start their journey with open source but aren't as aware.

@Tlazypanda
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Hey @chicken-biryani yeah here's the link - https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/blob/main/HACKTOBERFEST.md

Also since we T-2 hrs from Hacktoberfest hoping for all the contributors in this thread to help out with opening issue, reviewing prs or in any capacity they can 🎉

@shloka-gupta
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Hia!
Created an issue that maybe can be broken down into 3-4 first-timer issues.
publiclab/community-toolbox#502

Create the folder and then an issue each to create a sub-template.

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jywarren commented Jan 4, 2022

Hi all! Just closing this up for the year! Thank you!!!!!

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