vinitshahdeo/hacktoberfest2021

A community-led mentorship initiative to help beginners kickstarting their open-source journey by completing Hacktoberfest'21 challenge | Curated list of beginner-friendly issues for Hacktoberfest 2021 | Raise PR to add your issues

Hacktoberfest 2021

A community-led mentorship initiative to help beginners kickstarting their open-source journey by completing Hacktoberfest'21 challenge.

👉 How can you get on board as a mentor. ✨

👉 Kindly submit your details if you're beginner who's looking for a mentor. 🌈

👉 Win exciting goodies(GitHub stickers) by building an application. 🚨

Quick Links

EXPLORE	CONNECT	BLOG POSTS	MEDIA ASSETS
ISSUES.md	Mentors	A curated list of beginner-friendly issues for Hacktoberfest 2021	Posters
PROJECTS.md	Mentees	Muddle through Hacktoberfest 2021 like a Pro 🎉	PPTs
EVENTS.md	Admin	Introduction to Git & Github. Create your first PR.	Mentor Pictures

Here's a home to your queries and quest for potential issues to contribute. We've compiled a handpicked list of beginner-friendly issues (& repositories) ahead of time so that you can get the ball rolling once Hacktoberfest kicks off! 🚀

If you are a beginner, the mentors will guide you on getting started with open source and completing your Hacktoberfest challenge. You can begin by introducing yourself here. If you happen to be experienced in this field, we would be more than grateful to onboard you as a mentor. Please go through "Muddle through Hacktoberfest 2021 like a Pro 🎉" blog post to learn more or find the quick links below:

❯ Your First PR 🔥

❯ Ask Your Doubts 💬

❯ Share on Twitter 📣

❯ Find your mentor 🤝

❯ Become a mentor 🙌

❯ Add beginner-friendly issues 🙏

❯ Read the blog 📖

❯ Request an event ⭐

Hope we help each other to complete the Hacktoberfest challenge!

Beginner-friendly issues

Serial No.	Repository	Link to Issue	Language
1.	inspirational-quotes	Add More Inspirational Quotes	JavaScript
2.	inspirational-quotes	Configure ESLint	JavaScript
3.	inspirational-quotes	Test to avoid repetition of Quotes	JavaScript
4.	jobtweets	Taking query(#hashtags) as input from user	Python
5.	jobtweets	[Pie Chart] Graphical representation of the results	Python
6.	Email-Signature-Template	Add some more template	HTML CSS
7.	Hackathon-Timer	Use GitHub webhooks	NodeJS
8.	Cookie-Manager	Prompt a confirmation before clearing all cookies	JavaScript
9.	Cookie-Manager	Delete cookies for a single domain	JavaScript
10.	Cookie-Manager	Display cookies based on the filter i.e. regex(say github.com)	JavaScript
11.	Cookie-Manager	Refactor code in background.js	JavaScript
12.	Cookie-Manager	[Documentation Missing] Add JSDoc	JavaScript
13.	NASA-Media-Search	Beginner-friendly issues	ReactJs Redux Jest
14.	Caucus	Adding Zen Mode	TypeScript
15.	Caucus	Improving Contrast on Hover	CSS
16.	DSA-Java	new lesson: Introduction to Arrays	Java,Markdown,Images
17.	Quotter	Auto follower (Follow for Follow)	NodeJS
18.	Quotter	Adding a feature to DM the quotes to all the followers	NodeJS
19.	Quotter	.gitignore is missing	NodeJS
20.	SimpleBio	Add more templates	HTML CSS JS
21.	HBD	Coder's Way of Wishing Happy Birthday	Any Language
22.	Hashtagify	Suggest #Hashtags for Video	JavaScript
23.	online-debate-system	UI Improvements	HTML CSS JS
24.	MiniYouTube	Add ESLint	React
25.	TwitterSentimentAnalysis	[HacktoberFest] UI Improvements	PHP
26.	ProgressiveNewsApp	Sort news on the basis of popularity and Date published	JavaScript
27.	ProgressiveNewsApp	UI Improvements	CSS
28.	ProgressiveNewsApp	Add Date published in News Card	HTML JavaScript
29.	Map Of India	Union territories are missing from the Map of India	Node.js
30.	Map Of India	Add a script to print the National Flag of India 🇮🇳	Node.js
31.	Map Of India	Just border of Map of India	Node.js
32.	myFaculty	List content overflows from the container	CSS
33.	myFaculty	UI improvisation	React
34.	myFaculty	Responsive UI	CSS
35.	Water Monitoring System	UI Enhancements	HTML CSS JS
36.	Water Monitoring System	Project Documentation	Markdown
37.	Water Monitoring System	Setting up Cloud APIs to send/receive data	Node.js MongoDB
38.	Water Monitoring System	Admin Dashboard	HTML CSS JS
39.	Water Monitoring System	Notify stakeholders	Node.js
40.	Recruitment Portal	Put a timer for quizzes	PHP JavaScript
41.	covid19api	Add a query to latest data for COVID-19 cases	GraphQL
42.	covid19api	Add a query to get particular state data	GraphQL
43.	Resizrr	Add dark mode to resizrr app.	Dart Flutter
44.	Classified-ads-48	Correct Bootstrap layout and forms	HTML JavaScript Bootstrap Node.js
45.	Classified-ads-48	Improve Google Lighthouse score and other SEO audits	HTML JavaScript Bootstrap Node.js
46.	CODINGSPACE	Create a Join Discord Community button	REACTJS TAILWINDCSS FIREBASE
47.	CODINGSPACE	Fix challenge details page blank screen	REACTJS TAILWINDCSS FIREBASE
48.	CODINGSPACE	Card and button lack hover effect	REACTJS TAILWINDCSS FIREBASE
49.	dry-python/classes	Add Any alias to object	Python
50.	Attack on Web	Fix Linting	JavaScript NodeJs
51.	Formica	Use Docker Volumes instead of Copy	Docker
52.	Express-autodocs	Adding a sidebar index in standard output	Javascript ExpressJs
53.	Express-autodocs	Beautify standard documentation page	Javascript ExpressJs
54.	SolverJs	Provide more relative Method	Javascript NodeJs

Find complete list of beginner-friendly issues at ISSUES.md

Beginner-friendly repositories

Serial No.	Repository	Issues	Pull Requests	Forks
1.	inspirational-quotes
2.	jobtweets
3.	Email-Signature-Template
4.	Hackathon-Timer
5.	Cookie-Manager
6.	Hacktoberfest-21-Open-First-PR
7.	Caucus
8.	DSA-Java
9.	Quotter
10.	SimpleBio
11.	HBD
12.	Hashtagify
13.	online-debate-system
14.	MiniYouTube
15.	TwitterSentimentAnalysis
16.	PortScanner
17.	Water-Monitoring-System
18.	Map-of-India
19.	ProgressiveNewsApp
20.	covid19api
21.	myFaculty
22.	Recruitment Portal
23.	Resizrr
24.	Classified-ads-48
25.	T-Picker-Frontend
26.	T-Picker-Backend
27.	CODINGSPACE
28.	Data-Structures-and-Algorithms
29.	wemake-python-styleguide
30.	Opentek Organization
31.	express-autodocs
32.	Website
33.	SolverJS
34.	NASA-Media-Search

^{DISCLAIMER: We keep a check on all the projects being added to the list but there might still be a few projects which is excluded. Please be cautious about the same. Thanks for your cooperation to make this space better.}

Find complete list of beginner-friendly repositories at PROJECTS.md

Your First PR

All you need to know is an inspirational quote! Voila, you're just a step away from opening your first pull request!

Here's the issue: Add More Inspirational Quotes

Contributing

• Feel free to raise a PR to add beginner-friendly issues (& repos).

  • Kindly follow this format to raise the PR.
    • Add your issues to ISSUES.md
    • Add your repositores to PROJECTS.md

• Resolve the beginner's queries here.

• Are you willing to be a mentor to help beginners? Raise a pull request to add your name to MENTORS.md.

  • Kindly follow this format to raise the PR.

Mentoring

Learn more about the initiative.

If you're interested to become a mentor to help beginners kickstart their open-source journey, please submit your details here. Post the Google form submission, please raise a PR (template) to add your name to MENTORS.md.

As a mentor, you will:

🙏 resolve beginner's doubts

👍 share beginner-friendly issues (& repositories).

💬 engage with other community members.

🤝 welcome and help others to finish the Hacktoberfest challenge.

Please refer to this blog to learn more.

Need help

Are you a beginner looking for help in kickstarting your open-source journey? Start a discussion here. The community will always welcome your doubts! Watch this repo, I will keep adding new beginner-friendly issues.

• Additionally, you can reach out to the mentors to get 1:1 help to resolve your queries. Find your mentor here.
• Follow GitHub - We love OSS 💙 on Clubhouse and join the rooms to interact with the mentors.
• Join us on Discord.

Support

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hacktoberfest2021's Issues

ISSUE.md and README.md are not in sync

Currently, If you notice there are 49 issues in the README.md and 50 issues in the ISSUES.md. Are we supposed to update both README.md and ISSUES.md while create a PR.

Adding my repository 2

Information

• Issue: https://github.com/bacloud14/WeatherVenue/issues/40

• Repository: https://github.com/bacloud14/WeatherVenue/

• Tech stack: JavaScript, NodeJs, Redis, Google Maps.

• is it a beginner-friendly issue?

• Note: I would like to add the whole repository.

Discord link broken in mentors' action items

In issue #140, https://discord.gg/VABFEUWQ is listed as the discord link, and it's broken. Might want to change it.

Request for an event and to add some Html file

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals?

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event?

• When do you want this event?

• Language of the event?

• fill this google form.

Invalid discord link in action items for mentors and issue in Projects.md file

@vinitshahdeo Sir , the link in the action item for mentors to join Discord is invalid , can you pls update the link that so that we all mentors can get into a place to ask things and discuss issues and problems .

Its a request to get it corrected soon.

Sir I would also like to highlight that some projects that are getting merged in the PROJECTS.md have 0 acitve issues . So it maybe a chance that are inactive . So can you make a announcement for the same so that we all mentors only include projects which is active and has a good amount of issues and PRs on it .
Otherwise if mentees found an inactive project , after their contributions too , they will not be able to contribute actively due to project being inactive

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals? We wish to organize an introductory level event explaining about Open source and Hacktoberfest, the target audience will be students of sophomore and pre-final year.

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event? around 100

• When do you want this event? On 7th October

• Language of the event? English or Hindi

• We wish to conduct this event under GDSC UMIT

• fill this google form.

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals? Community Event

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event? 150+

• When do you want this event? 05/10/2021

• Language of the event? English

• fill this google form.

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals?

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event?

• When do you want this event?

• Language of the event?

• fill this google form.

Request for an Hands on session on git and github

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals?

    This Event is for college students.
  

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event?

   Around 200 students.
  

• When do you want this event?

  11th October 2021
  

• Language of the event?

  English/Hindi.
  

• fill this google form.

Discord Invite Link is not working

The discord invite link mentioned in the pinned issue is not working, and hence I am unable to join the server.

Pinned issue : #140

Please add some good first issues

Please do add some new issues in

• good first issues label for @HacktoberFest2021

Software developer cheatsheet

Can we make a website where all the handwritten as well as document cheatsheet will be present and anyone can refer for any programming languages like html, css, js,react,golang and so on to see for reference??
Or list of libraries which are helpful in react ?

Request to review Wrong Serial no's in Issues.md after 74

Serial no after 74 should be 75 and 76 but misspelled as 55.

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals? College students.

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event? 50-60 students.

• When do you want this event? 30th September.

• Language of the event? English/Hindi.

• fill this google form.

Hacktoberfest2021

For easy contribution create pr on this repo.

https://github.com/vijaygupta18/Hacktoberfest-2021

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals?

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event?

• When do you want this event?

• Language of the event?

• fill this google form.

Excluded project

I would like to join as a mentor

Name: Ankur Gupta
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ankurg132
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ankurg132
About: Hey there, I'm a student interested in Python, Flutter, Devops, ML and an open source contributor.
Why do you want to become a mentor
I would like to help out others to get started in open source and guide them throughout the program.

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals? College Students

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event? 50-100

• When do you want this event? 5th october 5-6 PM

• Language of the event? Hindi or English

• fill this google form.

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals?

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event?

• When do you want this event?

• Language of the event?

• fill this google form.

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals? College students

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event? 300-400

• When do you want this event? 03-10-2021

• Language of the event? English

• Organizers: IE(I) CSE Student Chapter, Chitkara University (Punjab Campus)

• You can visit our official instagram page at https://instagram.com/ieiciet

• fill this google form.

Greet the first time users who raise an issue or a PR

Since this repository is for first-timers, we can use GitHub Actions to greet them when they raise their first issue or open their first pull request in this repository. I'd like to take this issue.

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals?

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event?

• When do you want this event?

• Language of the event?

• fill this google form.

PR Request Template link is broken

Hey ! The PR Request Template for adding names to MENTORS.md link in the README is not working(broken) the broken link - https://github.com/vinitshahdeo/Hacktoberfest2021/blob/main/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/ADD_NEW_MENTOR.md

Maintainers can add a good first issue for beginners to contribute

Action Items for Mentors

👋 Hello Mentors,

Thanks again for your support. 🙏
Please help us further with the following:

• Introduce yourself at #127

• Add your repositories to PROJECTS.md

• Add beginner-friendly issues to ISSUES.md

• Drop your picture to assets/pictures directory

Please ensure that your file name should follow <your_username>.jpg/.png, e.g. vinitshahdeo.png

• Ask your mentees to submit their details here.

• Keep updating MENTEES.md as soon as you start mentoring.

• Join our Discord to stay updated.

• Read this blog post if you haven't yet.

• Please follow the Code Of Conduct.

• Take a break and drink water!

Happy Hacktoberfest'21 🌈

I'm Stephen Kihuni from Kenya, front-end developer and happy to be here. lets do this!

Discussed in #127

^{Originally posted by vinitshahdeo September 24, 2021}

👋 Let's use this thread to introduce each other. 💬 🌈

Salute to all the amazing mentors who decided to trade away the hours that they could use to pursue their own career goals and spend them on guiding newbies in completing their @Hacktoberfest challenge! 🙌 Thanks for supporting "Muddle through Hacktoberfest 2021 like a Pro 🎉" initiative.

Adding my repository 1

Information

• Issue: https://github.com/bacloud14/Classified-ads-48/issues/8

• Repository: https://github.com/bacloud14/Classified-ads-48

• Tech stack: JavaScript, NodeJs, MongoDB, Leaflet.

• is it a beginner-friendly issue?

• Note: I would like to add the whole repository.

My Interesting projects That I think can be added.

Here is the list. To understand the Project, go through the repo.

@vinitshahdeo @iamdevvalecha

1. Good Morning Girlfriend - https://github.com/wimpywarlord/Goodmorning-Girlfriend
   Tech Used - Vue.js, EJS, Node.js, Cron Jobs, NodeMailer Etc.

2. Amigos - https://github.com/wimpywarlord/Amigos
   Tech Used - MongoDB, Async Programming, Jitsi Meet Etc.

3. Study Buddy - https://github.com/wimpywarlord/Study-Buddy
   Tech Used - Whatsapp API, EJS, Javascript, HTML

4. AutoDocs - https://github.com/wimpywarlord/AutoDoc
   Tech Used - Solidity, Ethereum Rinky Test Net, Remix IDE, Ethereum Faucets, Application Binary Interface (ABI), Smart Contracts, Web3.js, Truffle.js, Ganache Etc.

5. Btech Blueprint - https://github.com/wimpywarlord/BTech-Blueprint
   Tech Used - EJS, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap, Node.js, Express.js Etc.

6. My portfolio Website - https://github.com/wimpywarlord/wimpywarlord.github.io
   Tech Used - SCSS, HTML, CSS, Javascript Etc.

I would love to help out students learn in the process.

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals?
  95% University Students, but will be open to all
• How many folks do you expect will attend this event?
  50-100
• When do you want this event?
  October 1st ,7-11 pm ist
• Language of the event?
  Hindi/English both will work fine for me
• fill this google form.

Request for an event . Give me the chance to work on it.

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals?

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event?

• When do you want this event?

• Language of the event?

• fill this google form.

Discord Link is broken

Hey @vinitshahdeo The discord invite was expired in the README and in the blog too!

[Docs] Create FAQs.md

Let's create FAQs.md that includes all the commonly asked questions. Happy for all the community inputs.

Invalid Issues link in ISSUES.md

Issue #83 Github LookBook is pointing to an invalid Issues URL.

https://github.com/vinitshahdeo/GitHubLookBook/issues/37

Please help fix this URL to point to the correct issue.

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals? College students

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event? <70>

• When do you want this event? <15th Oct, 2021>

• Language of the event? English or a mix of English and Hindi

• fill this google form.

Create a cover image for blog post

@pranjalbareth

As discussed, please create a cover image and raise a PR by putting the exported .jpg and .png inside /assets directory.

Recommended dimensions: 1200px width and 630px height

Wrong Issue on 40 number

https://github.com/vinitshahdeo/Recruitment-Portal/
Issue no 40 has the wrong link related to in url please fix @vinitshahdeo

Opening Ceremony 🎉

Hi mentors, welcome to the program. We are soon going to have a virtual meet. So you are requested to fill this google form. We are making you fill this form so that we can send you the link to join.

@vinitshahdeo @iamdevvalecha @booleanhunter @bacloud14 @parthlimbad @Narasimha1997 @pranjalbareth @Kashish121
@Rishabh-malhotraa @ridsuteri @omrajsharma @Utkarsh1504 @Severus-Matthew @Aditya-Jha2002 @aedit @deeqakkk @kanak22

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals? College Students

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event? 80-100

• When do you want this event? 2nd October (tentative)

• Language of the event? English/Hindi or Telugu

• fill this google form.

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals? College students

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event? Approx. 200

• When do you want this event? 3rd October,21

• Language of the event? English or Hindi

• fill this google form.

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals? Students

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event? 100-130

• When do you want this event? 02.10.2021 and 03.10.2021

• Language of the event? English or Telugu

• fill this google form.

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals?
  University Students

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event?
  500

• When do you want this event?
  24th October

• Language of the event?
  English/Hindhi

• fill this google form.
  ok

Invalid discord link

Please provide the following information

Discord link is invalid cc @vinitshahdeo

Reference: https://vinitshahdeo.dev/hacktoberfest-2021

Docs: Add projects in readme.md

[Bug] Emojis not rendering properly.

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals?

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event?

• When do you want this event?

• Language of the event?

• fill this google form.

Haven't received any confirmation mail from hacktoberfest even after having 4 accepted PR's .

I haven't received any mail regarding completion of hacktoberfest contribution eventhough my 4 pr's got accepted (went into 14 days review period.

Request for a Poster

Hey @vinitshahdeo
You can create a poster using the Hacktober fest template, with a caption of - 100+ mentors and 500+ mentees, to post on socials.

Request for an event

#354 Add a code prime two number

Request to add myself as a mentor

Apologies for writing everything on title (corrected) and submitting it from mobile.

I find it difficult where to raise PR

Request for an event

Please provide the following information

• Is this event for college students or professionals?

• How many folks do you expect will attend this event?

• When do you want this event?

• Language of the event?

• fill this google form.