Hacktoberfest is an inclusive event celebrating open source contributions, inviting participation from individuals of all skill levels, with activities such as making pull requests and organizing events. The event runs from October 1 to October 31, allowing participants to engage with projects on GitHub. Open source software is publicly accessible, contrasting with closed source software, and this document provides insights on leveraging Git and GitHub for contributions.

1. Avinash S
Technical
Team member
Getting started with
Hacktoberfest
Saketh
Technical
Team member

3. What is Hacktoberfest?
Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a
developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you
can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an
ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to
complete the challenge.
● Hacktoberfest is a celebration open to everyone in our global community.
● Pull requests can be made in any GitHub-hosted repositories/projects.
● You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.

4. ● Prepare and share your project for collaboration
● Contribute to the betterment of a project via pull
requests
● Organize an event
● Mentor others
● Donate directly to open source projects
What can we do in Hacktoberfest?

5. Open source is a term that originally referred to open source software (OSS). Open source
software is code that is designed to be publicly accessible—anyone can see, modify, and
distribute the code as they see fit.
What is Open Source ?

6. Free software exists as a counterpart to proprietary or "closed source" software. Closed source
software is highly guarded. Only the owners of the source code have the legal right to access that
code. Closed source code cannot be legally altered or copied, and the user pays only to use the
software as it is intended—they cannot modify it for new uses nor share it with their communities.
Open Source vs Closed Source

7. Git & Github

8. ●Repositories
●Commits
●Issues
● Pull Requests
Github Essentials

9. There is a difference between a repository
and a git repository . Git Repository is the
./git folder inside a project . The repository
tracks all changes made to files in your
project building a history . If you delete this
folder , You lose all history .
Let’s have a Quick Demo for this!
Repository

10. The Commit Command in is used to save your changes to the
local repository.
Commit

11. The Commit Command in is used to save your changes to the local
repository.
Issues

12. Pull Request

13. All Commands in a NutShell
●git init
●git status
●git add .
●git add <File Name>
●git commit -
m “Message”
●git config
●git push

14. How to contribute to Hacktoberfest
2
Link your account to
Hacktoberfest
3 Search for Issues Available
5 Clone the Repository
6 Send a Pull request
4 Fork the repository
1 Create a GitHub Account

15. Thank You!
Shoot your questions.