Hacktoberfest is
around the corner, and as a software developer interested in open
source, it’s a very exciting time!
It’s my first time
participating in Hacktoberfest, I have no idea about how it’s going
to be like or the type of work that I’ll be doing. Whatever
happens, I have 2 clear goals that I’ll try to accomplish:
improving my web development skills and facing a scary challenge.
I’ve been a
developer for some time now, but because of the circumstances of the
work I had to do, I didn’t have a chance to develop my web skills
as much as I would’ve like to. Since the web is the future, I think
having a solid knowledge of web technologies is crucial to be part of the software development community, and collaborating in a project heavily web-based will
help me acquire the necessary knowledge to start feeling comfortable
with web technologies. Also, I’ve been lucky (or “lucky”) so
far because all the projects that I’ve been involved with were
accessible in one way or another. With accessible, I mean that I was
able to adapt to them, learning and developing the necessary
skills to be able to contribute to them. Hacktoberfest gives me the
chance to try to find something potentially scary that will require
the best of my abilities to succeed. I don’t know if I’ll be able
to overcome a real scary challenge, but I think facing one is
something that every developer should go through every now and then.
These are the issues
that I’d like to address:
There’s a project
started and maintained by CDOT RA’s called Dahsboard that has been in development
for some time, and it has a fair amount of issues related to web
technologies that would definitely help me improve my react skills
(I’ve never done anything in react before).
From that project, I
want to take on these 2 issues: Pull Request reminder and Coding Style Standards.
Another interesting
project that I’d like to work on is PenguinV. As their creators
describe it, "PenguinV is a simple and fast C++ image processing
library with focus on heterogeneous systems." The issue I’d like to
work on is not particularly exciting, but I think it’s going to
help me get familiar with the code and eventually start trying to
take on more relevant issues and really contribute to the project.
Wish me luck!
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