My experience of Hacktoberfest 2021
Published: 2021-10-24 07:41:11

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I have been participating in a great and the biggest event for open source this month- Hacktoberfest! In this article, I am going to tell you how I participated and how I enjoyed this event.

> Hacktoberfest is about contributing to open source, not getting free swag.

I participated as a maintainer and a contributor this year at Hacktoberfest

## What I did as a contributor
I have made a total of 16 Contributions this month so far and 15 of them got accepted! I am going to show you some of my PRs and what I did in those PRs-


###  [Hacktoberfest-projects](https://github.com/max-programming/hacktoberfest-projects) 

In Hacktoberfest Projects I added some animations to make it look better and enhance the experience and interactivity of the user. This feature was also requested by the maintainer so I made a  [PR ](https://github.com/max-programming/hacktoberfest-projects/pull/20) for the same :D.

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1635005502717/kFTVw3x5X.png)


###  [4C Site](https://github.com/FrancescoXX/4c-site) 
The 4C site was having many outdated packages and a few warnings that had to be fixed, so I decided to fix them up. It was pretty simple to fix. You can check out the Pull request  [here](https://github.com/FrancescoXX/4c-site/pull/78).


![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1635006924768/xJbkber_L.png)

### [Webapis playground](github.com/atapas/webapis-playground) 
In this app, I added a router progress bar, so that the user knows how much time it takes for them to reach the next page. The PR- https://github.com/atapas/webapis-playground/pull/76.

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1635007540284/FLXGaMWUO.png)

###  [Nextjs birthday wish](https://github.com/gouravkhunger/nextjs-birthday-wish/pull/24) 
In this repository the owner needed some help cuz he was fairly new to Next.js and he raised an issue on the same. I knew how to fix it so I took up the issue and did it, you can check out the PR  [here](https://github.com/gouravkhunger/nextjs-birthday-wish/pull/24) 

![image.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1635007580333/9gskKWFSG.png)

### Few more projects I contributed to-

-  [We love Hacktoberfest Bot](https://github.com/nhcarrigan/we-love-hacktoberfest/pull/176) 

- [Dev hearts](https://github.com/lukeocodes/dev-hearts/pull/29)

- [Hacktosearch](https://github.com/imsaptarshi/HacktoSearch/pull/14)

- [Learnbuildteach.com](https://github.com/Learn-Build-Teach/learnbuildteach.com/pull/6)

- [Next-wordpress-starter](https://github.com/colbyfayock/next-wordpress-starter/pull/245)

- [Social banner](https://github.com/Prashoon123/social-banner/pull/1)

I was glad to be able to contribute to all of these repositories and do whatever I could do to give back to open source :)


## What I did as a maintainer

I was maintaining 4 repositories this year and I got some great contributions in all of them. If you all want then feel free to contribute to any of them :D.

-  [ChatCube](https://github.com/avneesh0612/ChatCube)

-  [Voyagger ](https://github.com/avneesh0612/voyagger) 

- [Audible Clone](https://github.com/avneesh0612/audible-clone)

- [4c-site](https://github.com/FrancescoXX/4c-site)


**Useful links-**

 [Hacktoberfest](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) 

 [Finding the Right Open Source Projects to Contribute to](https://blog.avneesh.tech/finding-the-right-open-source-projects-to-contribute-to)

[Create nice Readmes for your open source projects ✨
](https://blog.avneesh.tech/create-nice-readmes-for-your-open-source-projects)

 [Let's connect](https://avneesh-links.vercel.app/)