newbie at hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software in partnership with GitHub.Every October, Digital Ocean and GitHub ship out free Hacktoberfest shirts to thousands of people around the world.

Taking first steps into Open Source at Digital Ocean's Hacktoberfest!

What is this?

This repository is meant to be a stepping stone for anyone and everyone who wants to participate at Digital Ocean's HacktoberFest and take their first steps into the (sometimes overwhelming) world of Open Source!

How can I find out how many pull requests I have made?

A great tool to do this here

What can I do here/ How do I participate?

Head over to HacktoberFest, sign up and come back here and take a look at the Contributions Guide or do the following:

Fork and Clone this repositiory
Add/ append your details into the README.md in the format:

- [Name](link_to_github)

an example:

- [sreetamdas](https://github.com/sreetamdas)

Send a pull request to this repository
Star this repository
Wait for pull-request to be merged
Find more Open Source repos/projects and start contributing!

How can I see my progress in Hacktoberfest?

Header over to Hacktoberfest
Click on "Check Progress"
Or you can go to https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/stats/ + [GitHub Username]

Contributors :

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Taking first steps into Open Source at Digital Ocean's Hacktoberfest