My first Hacktoberfest !!✨
Tags: hacktoberfest, opensource
Published: 2021-10-15 15:59:39

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*"I don't think I can"* to *"Wow!! This is pretty good!!"* 

Now that was my experience in a one-liner!

Hi folks, welcome back to another post. To the folks who's new to my posts, I'm Arun, a developer from India. 

So this is just a post on my experience of my first ever hacktoberfest!!

### How was it??

![awesome](https://media1.giphy.com/media/mXnO9IiWWarkI/giphy.gif?cid=790b7611dba0b4b5805ba15bbc374a4f01777aa0f5e10d96&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
It was pretty awesome. At first it felt overwhelming. A variety of thoughts went through my mind at first like "Can I do it?", "Will I be able to really help?", "What if I make a mistake?" and all sort of questions like this popped up in my head. It was really scary. Since I was scared I knew that I should do it. 
![lets do it](https://media.giphy.com/media/iKBAAfYNDu1dowhnEj/giphy.gif) 


### How's the progress??

Well.., my number of contributions will be a 2 digit number soon. My work life was a bit hectic these past few weeks. But still I knew I had to do this and squeezed out time for open source contributions. It was worth it!! Watching my PRs getting merged with the codebase, it felt so awesome.

I was literally like this 🤭
![awesome](https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohzdIuqJoo8QdKlnW/giphy.gif)

### What were my contributions??

I really didn't knew where to start. So like usual I just googled about Hacktoberfest and the projects participating in the events. Dev community really helped me on that. There were a lot of posts on this. So after reading through all of those I just went to Github and searched for some projects. Some of the projects I contributed are:
{% github sourcegraph/learn %}
{% github PrefectHQ/prefect %}
{% github bridgecrewio/AirIAM %}

Yea, some of the projects I contributed don't have `hacktoberfest` tags. And yea I know that those won't be considered as a valid PR in Hacktoberfest. At the end of the day the main purpose of this event is to let 'opensource contribution' as a habit for developers. I'm doing it for the fun of it. It felt really good while doing each PR's. 


### Reflections
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If you got till this point reading through this post then you might have already guessed how my experience was and I how feel about it. I have learned a lot with each PRs. Each maintainers are so helpful and friendly. All my anxiety was gone thanks to them. 

I will be continuing doing open source contributions whenever I get time. I would really encourage everyone to do the same and help each other out. And thank you for reading till this point 😄

![thank you](https://media.giphy.com/media/d68IdpvmAHohx5NMEV/giphy.gif)

**Open source is changing the world – one contribution at a time ✌️**

🎃 Happy Hacktoberfest 🎃 and Happy hacking 🙌🙌

Now that you heard about my experience I would like to know how your experience was. How was it for you??

I am on Twitter [@arunkc97](https://twitter.com/arunkc97) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arun-kc/). Give a follow!

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