The month-long celebration of Hacktoberfest is nearly over but don't threat! There's still time to get involved and potentially earn a Hacktoberfest T-shirt. In this episode, GitHub Star of the Year 2020, Eddie Jaoude shares everything you need to know to get involved in these remaining days.

Who is Eddie? Eddie Jaoude is an open source advocate and leader of the EddieHub open source community. He believes OPEN SOURCE is NOT just about code, it is about people, communication and collaboration.

Timestamps

• Introduction (00:00)
• What is Hacktoberfest (01:13)
• Is it too late to get involved? (01:50)
• Open source can catapult your career as it did for Eddie (03:02)
• Genuinely meaningful ways to contribute to open source that don't even involve writing code (07:10)
• Where to find your first open source project (09:21)
• How Hacktoberfest measures your contributions (14:32)
• "It's always about adding value, not amount of lines that have changed" (15:43)
• Challenges you might encounter and how to overcome them (18:52)
• Maintaining your own project and taking part in Hacktoberfest (20:23)
• Quick-fire questions with Eddie Jaoude (22:35)

Links

• Follow Eddie Jaoude on Twitter
• Follow Alex (host) on Twitter
• Check out the EddieHub inclusive open source community
• Contribute to Scrimba's Weekly Web Dev Challenge page