by Ann Green, Content Manager at ClickHelp.com — professional technical writing tool

If you want to get experience but don’t know how, here is a solution for you — Hacktoberfest!

Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in the 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 open to everyone.

Pull requests can be made in any GitHub-hosted repositories/projects.

Sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.

Rules

To qualify for the official limited edition Hacktoberfest shirt, you must register and make four pull requests between October 1–31. Pull requests can be made to any public repo on GitHub, not only the ones with issues labeled Hacktoberfest. If a maintainer reports your pull request as spam or behavior not in line with the project’s code of conduct, you will be ineligible to participate.

There are many projects available right now! You can learn the projects here: Hacktoberfest. Here is the GitHub list of open documentation projects.

Good luck!