Week 3: Forem Hacktoberfest Twitch Events Recap
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Published: 2020-10-16 17:29:55

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title: Week 3: Forem Hacktoberfest Twitch Events Recap
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This week the Forem team hosted four streams on Twitch during Hacktoberfest. Here is a recap of what we discussed!

## Tuesday Oct 13th: Gratitude Stream.
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[Nick Taylor]([https://dev.to/nickytonline](https://dev.to/nickytonline)) and [I](https://dev.to/coffeecraftcode) gave shoutouts to DEV community members who contributed to Forem last week. We had over 15 PRs merged from 11 different folks 🎉
{% link https://dev.to/devteam/hacktoberfest-week-two-thank-you-to-our-contributors-on-forem-38c0 %}

## Tuesday, Oct. 13th: Liquid Tags talk with Arit Amana hosted by Raise.dev:
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Nick Taylor and I were joined by [Arit Amana](https://dev.to/msarit) on the [raise.dev](https://raise.dev/) Hacktoberfest Helpdesk to talk about Liquid Tags. Arit shared how we use them at Forem and what bugs she has found and fixed while working with them. 🐛

## Wednesday, Oct 7th: Walkthrough Wednesday.
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Nick Taylor and I were joined by special guest [Lisa Sy](https://dev.to/lisasy), the Product Designer at DEV/Forem.
Lisa answered [questions](https://dev.to/devteam/i-m-lisa-sy-the-product-designer-at-dev-forem-ama-1df4) from folks on DEV and shared a lot of great information about working as a product designer and her design process. 

Check out Lisa's post to read answers to the questions from her AMA.
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## Thursday, Oct. 8th: Pair Programming with Rachael.
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DEV community member and Twitch streamer [Rachael Wright-Munn](https://twitter.com/ChaelCodes) joined us on the stream to enhance the recent work she did on creating the Twitch liquid tag.
{% github https://github.com/forem/forem/pull/10577 %}


Thanks to all our viewers who joined the streams and chatted with us this week! 

We look forward to seeing you again next when we are joined by Forem team member  [Vaidehi Joshi](https://dev.to/vaidehijoshi ) to talk about what she does as a software engineer at Forem, working with the backend, and answering your questions. 
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We will also be joined by community member [Marie Antons](https://dev.to/marieantons) who will be pairing with Nick on [this open issue](https://github.com/forem/forem/issues/3588).
{% listing https://dev.to/listings/events/twitch-liquid-tags-pair-programming-with-marie-anton-4dm1 %}

Keep an eye on [ThePracticalDev Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/thepracticaldev) channel for our streaming schedule. 

P.S. If you’re curious about the open Forem issues you can contribute to, check out this post:
{% link https://dev.to/devteam/contribute-to-forem-this-hacktoberfest-5cjj %}

P.P.S. Want a refresher on some Hacktoberfest rules, tips, and advice from DEV? Don’t miss this post:  
{% link https://dev.to/devteam/happy-hacktoberfest-here-s-how-to-show-up-for-open-source-this-month-4cee %}