{"id":2140,"date":"2017-10-31T04:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T23:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2018-05-17T05:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T00:06:44","slug":"hacktoberfest-open-source-wordpress-meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/hacktoberfest-open-source-wordpress-meetup\/","title":{"rendered":"The WPCouple’s #Hacktoberfest Open Source with WordPress Meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Saturday Ahmad Awais<\/a> along with the WPCouple Team<\/a> organized a huge Hacktoberfest Event in Lahore. It was by far our best event throughout this year.<\/p>\n

\"Ahmad<\/a><\/div>\n

Every year at Hacktoberfest Ahmad<\/a> teaches people to start contributing to open source. Add Git, GitHub, and DigitalOcean to the mix and we have a hacktoberfest<\/a>. That’s what happened this time. We learned how and why Git was created by Linus Torvalds (who also created Linux). Agenda also included an introduction to the basic commands of git, it\u2019s working, and how it can be used to collaborate and improve development workflow.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\uddd2 Meetup Notes<\/h2>\n

Let’s take a look at what happened at the meetup and at the end, you can find the images and other details.<\/p>\n

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\ud83c\udfa9 Talk by Ahmad Awais<\/h3>\n

Starting with the introduction, Ahmad Awais<\/a> delivered a talk on open source software, their communities, and Git. He also talked about how contributing to the open source and WordPress has changed his life. One of the things that he tried to push was to make people realize the power of open source.<\/p>\n

\"Ahmad<\/a><\/div>\n

Ahmad<\/a> gave the example of Git and Linux. Both of them, being open source, have a huge impact on the digital world. Git gave a new way of managing the code. Linux evolved to power every other smart device (1.5 Billion Android devices and 98% of the internet).<\/p>\n

\"Ahmad<\/a><\/div>\n

In the latter part of his talk, he introduced the audience to the basics of the Git. While he asked everyone to check out 15 minutes GitHub learning tutorial<\/a> but his talk was more focused on why to open source code than how.<\/p>\n

\"Developers<\/a><\/div>\n

I know for a fact that, Ahmad<\/a> doesn’t like to spoonfeed. It’s his way of getting you to do the real work. It was all worth it. The audience was keenly engaged in the discussion and got a pretty good idea of the basic commands and working of Git. Except for the silly jokes he cracked \u2014 he also shared many useful resources with the audience.<\/p>\n

\"Ahmad<\/a><\/div>\n

The fun part was the intro to DigitalOcean<\/a>\/GitHub<\/a> and the Hacktoberfest<\/a> event. How everyone can create four pull requests and get a limited edition t-shirt.<\/p>\n

\"Hacktoberfest<\/a><\/div>\n

\u2753 Q\/As<\/h2>\n

Ahmad<\/a> ended up talking and discussing stuff for about than two hours. He took questions during the talk as well as at the end of the talk. I\u2019ll try to summarize the major discussion parts here:<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcaf Git\/GitHub: <\/b>The student participants were excited to know about Git. They had queries regarding how they can start using Git and GitHub.Ahmad<\/a> told everyone to have a GitHub profile if they are a dev, and to put their code online, open source it without the fear of code review.<\/p>\n

They might end up collaborating or helping someone. He shared his 70+ open source projects and inspiring GitHub profile<\/a> of an open source evangelist that he is. Check it out.<\/p>\n

\"Ahmad<\/a><\/div>\n

\ud83d\ude4c Personal Development: <\/b>There were several full stack and pro developers in the audience. They had done ample amount of work in their career but never contributed to the open source. They had a healthy discussion about making their entire teams at work contribute code to the open source software.<\/p>\n

\"Hacktoberfest<\/a><\/div>\n

\ud83c\udfaf Why is it called the “Pull Request”: <\/strong>Ahmad<\/a> asked a fun question from us that why is it that we call it a Pull Request instead of a Push Request when in reality we are trying to push our code.<\/p>\n