The journey of Open Source and my first Hacktoberfest
Tags: hacktoberfest, opensource
Published: 2020-10-17 07:01:44

> In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
**Linus Torvalds**


Heya Amigos !!
Hope everyone is building something great.

This is Abhijit Tripathy, a sophomore of Computer Science and Engineering from India. I am a python lover and an aspiring Machine Learning Engineer.

Most importantly, I am active **Open Source Contributor** 😍

Everything related to me can be found here - [My Portfolio](https://abhijit2505.github.io/portfolio-site/)

Today I will be sharing my journey of Open Source and as I have completed the hacktoberfest 2020 challenge, I will be telling about some of my open-source projects in which you may contribute.

## My open-source journey

### SCI - 2020 (Studentcode In) 
My open-source journey started with the three-month-long open-source competition organized by SCI. I was a part of the project named **"Survival Analysis"**, which is a statistical model used for analyzing and predicting survivals in business, churning of customers, the survival of patients in clinical trials and much more. I have worked on the **EDA**(Exploratory Data Analysis) part of the model as well as managed to write a python script for the **Nelson Aaelan Estimator**, that's used for the hazard function in survival analysis. Also, I have worked in building some scripts with the **dash** module of python for the deployment of the project.
This was my first involvement as a contributor to any open-source project in a group and I was selected as the top 25 winners of the competition as well.
The project can be viewed here - [Survival Analysis](https://github.com/Abhijit2505/Survival-Analysis)

### BWLU 2020(Build With Letsupgrad) 
This was 2.5 months-long open-source project competition organized by Letsupgrad, where I was able to ideate a project named **"Algorithmic Treasure"**, and contributed as a **Project Manager & Mentor** for the same. The project is a long term association of developers in order to prepare a website having good resources for the interview preparing candidates. A group of 10-12 developers came together in order to build the primary version of this website.
The project can be viewed here - [Algorithmic Treasure](https://abhijit2505.github.io/Algorithmic-Treasure-Site/)

### Contributor's Hack 2020(Hakincodes)
I have got an opportunity to be a mentor for this open-source program, where I have contributed to one of the participating projects. Mentoring is a great opportunity to refine the skills and help others getting started with open-source. In this program, I have been chosen as the top 5 mentors.
The project can be viewed here - [neoAlgo](https://github.com/TesseractCoding/NeoAlgo)

### Hacktoberfest 2020(Digitalocean, DEV, Intel)
This October 2020, I have got a chance to be the part of Hacktoberfest 2020, as an organizer, maintainer and participant. As I am a part of three global communities namely [Developer Student Clubs,GGV](https://dsc.community.dev/guru-ghasidas-vishwavidyalaya/),[Codecademy Campus Chapter](https://community.codecademy.com/guru-ghasidas-university/) &[Mozilla Student Developers,GGV](https://community.mozilla.org/en/groups/mozilla-student-developers-ggv-bilaspur/), I have got a chance to organize two speaker sessions from industry professionals and achievers in explaining the basics of git & GitHub to my college people as well as giving them a chance to dive into opensource.
I have my python software package named [eduAlgo](https://github.com/Abhijit2505/eduAlgo) participating in the hacktoberfest 2020 as an open-source project. Also, I have completed the challenge by submitting 4 PRs (three to DSC repositories, that included two Django beginner projects and a flask implemented car price, prediction model). Cheers !!!

![My Hacktober completion](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/7c7fadfqxagql13gklyw.JPG)

### Autumn Of Opensource 2020 (sanscript.tech)
Recently I have got a chance to be a contributor for AOS20 organized by **sanscript**. This is an ongoing open-source project competition.

## My Open-source Projects
I have only one project opted for the *Hacktoberfest2020*.
* **eduAlgo** - This is a very simple python package made up with python script to study different algorithms for educational purposes. This package is currently under planning version and previously this project has been a part of **FOSS Hack 2020** & **PyCon 2020 Devsprint**.
PyPI link - [eduAlgo](https://pypi.org/project/eduAlgo/)

Thanks to Hacktoberfest organizers for coming up with this idea every year and supporting the real open-source 😊

> In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.
**Linus Torvalds**