Some ways to thank your favorite open source projects and Hacktoberfest 2020

It is very important for new developers to understand the true spirit of contribution in open source repos. These libraries or repos are a work of someone’s year’s of work. The work that he/she is putting for free to be used by millions of people. If you want to contribute in them, you need to work really hard or at least a few weeks. Add some features and make your contribution count, a contribution that you can be proud of. If not, just thanks them or buy a beer for them.

1. Contribute to the project. It doesn’t matter if you contribute code or docs or help with the design. Any help is appreciated. If you want to contribute code and you’re new to the project look for issues/bugs labeled with first-time, good-first-bugs or similar tags
2. Sponsor the project. If you can’t give a hand yourself, money is always welcome. This money will allow the contributors to devote more time to the project or enable them to hire more people/services to maintain the project and ensure its future sustainability. There are many options to make sure your money goes to the right place. Just to mention a few (each of them with a slightly different focus): Open Collective, Tidelift, Github Sponsors or CodeFund. There are even very cool projects to help open source projects decide how they should distribute these funds, e.g SourceCred and the Octobox philosophy.
3. Promote the project. Talk about the project on social media. Mention the contributors. Recommend the project. Help them get more attention and visibility. Even if you couldn’t contribute or fund, some of the people you’ll reach out will do.
4. Star and watch the project. Most projects are on GitHub. And people tend to correlate the number of stars and watches with project popularity and impact. I don’t really think it’s true. To begin with, “popularity” is a very ambiguous concept. But regardless of my opinion, projects need to brag about their massive following to attract more people/money. So help them. Despite their flaws (we know GH stars won’t pay your rent!), these two are one of the easiest metrics they can use.
5. Just say hello and thanks. A simple message or note thanking the contributors means a lot. Nothing easiest to do but, unfortunately, so rarely happening. Even better if you explain where and how you’re using the project. Again, open source maintainers have very little visibility on how their project is used so any little insight will help and motivate.

Hacktoberfest® is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.

• Hacktoberfest is a celebration open to everyone in our global community.
• Pull requests can be made in any GitHub-hosted repositories/projects.
• You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.

For more details check the event link below:

Event Link :

Hacktoberfest 2020: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/