Hacktoberfest 2022 is now up for low or non-code contributions: Here’s where to start

Hacktoberfest is DigitalOcean’s annual event that encourages people to contribute to open source throughout October. Much of modern tech infrastructure — including some of DigitalOcean’s products — relies on open-source projects built and maintained by passionate people who often don’t have the staff or budgets to do much more than keep the project alive. Hacktoberfest is all about giving back to those projects, sharpening skills, and celebrating all things open source, especially the people who make open source so special.

However, Hacktoberfest was known to coders for all these 9 years and the non-coders just helped on rare occasions with the documentation. But, from this year -2022, Hacktoberfest has welcomed non-coders as well. You can be a low-code person or a non-code person — can still have big contributions to the open-source projects on Hacktoberfest 2022.

Now, if you want to get started on low-code or non-code contributions then you can now get started on many repos you can search by exploring the topic and issues from your GitHub account.

The repo is now open for all of you to contribute your knowledge of the system design concepts.

If you want to learn the whole process of contributing to the open source, check out my previous article —

How to create a pull request in GitHub?: A small guide to beginners in Hactoberfest-2022.

The TL; DR is as follows: -

1. Register for Hacktoberfest-2022 as a contributor here.

2. Fork the repo and make it available locally. Run the command below: -

git clone https://<username>/<repo_name>

3. Create a branch for changes

git checkout master

git branch -M <branch_name>

4. Make the changes

6. Commit the changes

git add .

git commit -m '<comment>'

git push -u origin <branch_name>

7. Open a Pull request in your GitHub

If these steps are a little hard for you to understand, the respective repo will also have a guide to make your pull request easy.

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