Hi, every one as all of you know "HactoberFest, 2022" is going on, every IT professional who know open source must know about this Big event as well. I am not only new to open source but also this is my first hactoberfest participation. Few days back I did my first open source contribution and to be honest it felt great when my Pull Request was merged and show up in the hactoberfest profile.
This is a special memory for me as this was my first contribution in my career as well as in hactoberfest. It was a "good first issue" and "core java" was used in the project. I had to delete some methods and some access modifiers and that's basically it.
I did that and raised a pull request and few hours back it was got merged, But it was not reflected in the hactoberfest profile right away. I didn't know the hactoberfest team verify the merged pull request with in 7 days, so those few days were hard for me because I used to think that as the contribution was too small It might not get accepted by hactoberfest team but in the end it was got accepted and the happiness and satisfaction I got was on a whole different level, although I knew the contribution was not really big.
I have learnt a lot from this contribution, specially how to communicate with some one whom you don't know, how to find out the problem that you want to contribute to and all those basic stuff. I believe this a good start. I am currently in a boot camp so I am not able to dedicate much of my time to Open Source but One thing is for sure that now I can not stop my self from contributing to open source. I am going to put all my effort in open source from now onwards, because I know the opportunity that is their in open source.
How I get to know what are the opportunity in open source??
Well I follow few people in social media and youtube etc, and also joined few communities. You also can do the same, and take advantage of opensource.
people whom I follow : Eddie Jaoude, Kunal Kushwaha community I have joined : showwcase, hashnode, eddiehub
thank you guys, have a great day(or night).