Hacktoberfest 2022 🔥: Built by the community for the community!

This repository is an initiative which aims to help beginners kickstart their open-source journey and successfully submit their first pull request (PR) for Hacktoberfest 2022. It is also a safe space for everyone regardless of their skill level and we welcome participants from all around the world with different experiences, unique perspectives, and great ideas.

Need info?

Check the website | or Create an issue | or Feature request? | Support us on GitHub sponsors

Getting Started 🥳

We believe we can build a welcoming and inclusive community if we all:

• Use welcoming and inclusive language
• Attempt collaboration before conflict
• Are respectful of everyones' opinions, perspectives, viewpoints and experiences
• Can give and accept constructive feedback
• Accept responsibility and apologize to those affected by our actions and mistakes
• Focus on what is best for the community

Contributors 🎉

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute! ❤️ 💙

Shoutout to our contributors 🎉

How to contribute? ⭐

Before making any contributions, please take a look at our Community Guidelines and take a look at the existing Issues or create a new issue!

Wanna make a contribution but don't know how? Please follow the steps below.

1. Install Visual Studio Code and create a Git (not GitHub) account

   • Open the terminal in Visual Studio Code
   • Type git --version in a directory of your choice - you should see the version of Git that you downloaded. If you see an error, close and reopen VS Code and try again
   • Set your user name with git config --global user.name "<your-first-name> <your-last-name>" - replace the <placeholders> with the real values
   • Set your email address with git config --global user.email "<your-email-here>"- replace the <placeholder> with the real values (your email address should match the one with which you signed up for your GitHub account)

2. Fork this repository. This will create a copy of this repo in your GitHub account:

   • Open Your-First-Open-Source-Project/main-website (this repository)
   • Select Fork and * Make a Fork --> The URL of your fork is now https://github.com/<YOUR GITHUB ACCOUNT>/main-website

3. Clone the repository

4. Make changes

5. Commit and push your changes to your fork

   • type git add . (yes, there is a space ( ) between add and the .) - this adds all changes to staging area
   • type git commit -m "YOUR COMMIT MESSAGE" - this will commit your changes with the messages
   • type git push to push the changes to your remote fork

6. Make a Pull Request

What kind of contributions can I make? 💖

• Fixing grammar mistakes or typos
• Editing or suggesting changes
• Contributing to the content and resources of the repo
• Fix bugs/minor issues
• Automate process of this repo with GitHub actions

Status 🌐

• The community website is built using Next.js & TypeScript and is also fully developed as of 16/10/2022
• We are still accepting enhancements/bug fixes to this community codebase till the end of Hacktoberfest 2022 (31st Oct)
• In the meantime, don't forget to follow me @melvincwng, star this repo and join/follow our organization

Stay awesome & Happy Hacktoberfest 2022 🎃🎃🎃!