In this guest blogpost, first year Creative Computing undergraduate Kevin Lewis introduces his contribution to Hacktoberfest.
Hi there! My name’s Kevin Lewis – I’m a BSc Creative Computing student and vice president of Hacksmiths, Goldsmiths’ Tech Society. I’m also a technical events organiser and I’m currently running an event that I hope you’ll be interested in: Hacktoberfest Ldn.
Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of Open Source Software. Your challenge as a developer is to support OSS by submitting four pull requests during October. In return, you get a sweet limited edition t-shirt and the warm fuzzy feelings of doing good.
My event is Hacktoberfest Ldn, a guided entry to Hacktoberfest. You will learn what Open Source is, how to use git, and how to contribute to the community and the projects they write. Even if you think you’re not technical enough, no contribution is too small – bug fixes and documentation updates are valid ways of participating.
When: 6pm-9pm Monday 24 October 2016
Where: Newspeak House,133 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 7DG
We’ll have representatives from Digital Ocean and GitHub Education at the event, and a whole bunch of amazing and friendly developers. The space itself is a hub for socio-political technologists, who run many events throughout the year, many of them free. If you’re on the fence – come for the people and the free food.
Please read our Events Code of Conduct before attending. And if you have any questions, you can send me a message on Twitter or via email to klewi014@gold.ac.uk.
Thanks, Kevin.
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