My First Experience in Hacktoberfest 2020 💭
Tags: hacktoberfest, hackoberfest2020, opensource, javascriptdeveloper
Published: 2020-10-28 14:54:35

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title: My First Experience in Hacktoberfest 2020 💭 
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### Intro
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Hi everyone, my name is Raihan Nismara, a junior front-end developer at Codex by Telkom based in Indonesia. Joined DEV is really something with this you can share everything, what have you been experienced. And the reason why I'm participating in Hacktoberfest is because of swag. Yes! I'm a swag-man. 😆

### Background

<!-- Are you brand new to open source? What about coding in general? Tell us about how you got here →
Open-Source is something brand new in my life but since I work in the IT field, now I understand how important Open-Source for us as a developer. Especially for me as a front-end dev, every single day facing with open-source stuff. To be honest, I'm not good at all at programming nor design. But because I like to learn that's why I'm not quitting.

### Progress

<!-- Share a bit about where you’re at in your Hacktoberfest journey. What stage are you at? How has the process been?  -->
My PRs in Hacktoberfest were all accepted. Outstanding! I've gone above and beyond this Hacktoberfest and it's surprising. 🙌🏻

### Contributions

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Even what I can do is a small contribution, but I'm kinda proud of it. Working with a bunch of developers from all around the world, keeping the rules commit, reviewing each other code and all of it was fun. 👏🏻
<ul>My Favorites Contribution this year:
<li>digitalocean/hacktoberfest: adding a logo image of hacktoberfest2020 in their <a href="https://github.com/digitalocean/hacktoberfest/pull/568" target="_new">readme repo</a>, first thing come-up in my head was easy contribution that I can handle it.
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<li>gitpoint/git-point: adding Indonesia translation, when I sorted the most stared js project in Hacktoberfest topic on GitHub. I found git-point where Bahasa in not in their option language, then why not if I can add <a href="https://github.com/gitpoint/git-point/pull/921">the Indonesian language</a>
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### Reflections
<!-- Overall, how has your Hacktoberfest 2020 experience been? If you’re a first-timer, will you participate again? What have you learned? Have you made any interesting connections? What is your next step in open source?  -->
This pandemic made me more productive sometimes, the rest is made me wanna lay all day in my bed *haha, the lesson that I got from this Hacktoberfest is when you wanna create PR don't forget attached your output changes of code. It will get a better visualization of your changes for your reviewers 👌🏼 and definitely I'll be back joining the Hacktoberfest in the next year ❤️‍🔥


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