How to Get Started in Open Source (#Hacktoberfest) with Jason Schrader & CityCoins

Oct 25

Today 2 years back, I attended DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest 2019 🎃 In a couple weeks thanks to some very helpful blog posts, I learned how to work on open source projects on GitHub which are skills I still use today. This changed how I thought about open innovation and coding forever — it was a really transformational experience.

In the spirit of #Hacktoberfest, I'll be going live on YouTube today at 8:00pm EST (5:00pm PST) with Jason Schrader, a big open source technology advocate, as well as a core developer of CityCoins and Stacks blockchain advocate, to talk about how to get started in open-source and learn how to contribute to tech projects from anywhere in the world.

Here's what's on tap for today:

👉 Check out an open-sourced repository on GitHub and learn what we can do with the code to work on it ourselves

👉 Screenshare some live coding and talk through the design to implementation process for an open source project

👉 Share how to create a good pull request

👉 Build some fundamental skills for how to work with anyone on a coding project from anywhere in the world

I hope you will join us!!