Hacktoberfest 2019 Organising

Event details To submit...

Name of Hacktoberfest event *
Hacktoberfest GitHub Workshop

Organizers *
The Glasgow Coder Collective
Edward Whitley
Tracy Norman
Euan Weetch

City * Glasgow
State * Lanarkshire
Country * Scotland

Event Start date/time * (If several events, list the dates/times)
10/10/19 Thur     6:00PM - 9:00PM

Event URL *
TBC

Is your event open to the public? *
Yes

Event Location & Address *
The Saltire Centre Library, Glasgow Caledonian University
Cowcaddens Rd
Glasgow
G4 0BA
VP8X+WW8
https://w3w.co/nearly.hammer.lately
55.867287,-4.250172

Capacity *
20

Your email address *
[email protected]
Your name *
Edward Whitley

Have you read the HF Code of conduct?
Yup




Possible Event Agenda:
Get everyone sorted with:
    Pick a seat. Plug in chargers. Connect to wifi. Get comfy
    Sign up for a GitHub account (encourage preparation)
    Sign up for Hacktoberfest (encourage preparation)
    Optionally install a IDE + add-on, a Git client, or Git Bash
    Optionally get on the Collective’s Slack to communicate across the room and ask for help
Then intro by organisers.
Poll of people’s exp levels. Remind the Code Of Conduct. Name tags
Begin workshop



Publicity
Use the official HF assets?
Facebook event
Be clearer about what the event is than last yr

Executing
Start another repo for people to PR to?
https://github.com/GlasgowCoderCollective/resources  old repo
Post people's achievements on the GCC site?


Facebook event description (verbatim from 2018)
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Come learn GitHub and win a t-shirt!
Throughout October the Collective are collectively participating in Hacktoberfest, an initiative by GitHub and DigitalOcean to encourage people to contribute to open source projects on GitHub. To this end, anyone that links their GitHub account to the HF tracker and then sends 5 Pull Requests to any project, can be eligible for a prestigious HF t-shirt!

New to GitHub? Never made a PR before? We can show you how at the events (dates below). In fact GCC have our own starter project with some easy issues to pick up (like typos in the readme). Hacktoberfest is virtual and can be done solo but we wanted to help people with tutorials on version control, and make an event out of it!

Instructions:
Get yourself a GitHub account https://github.com/
Sign up for https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
Find the GCC example project to contribute to
https://github.com/GlasgowCoderCollective/resources
See the glorious results https://glasgowcodercollective.github.io/resources/
If you feel adventurous enough you can contribute to some real projects
https://auth0.com/blog/celebrate-hacktoberfest-with-auth0
https://open.microsoft.com/2018/09/18/hacktoberfest-2018-microsoft

More details:
Check your progress on the Hacktoberfest website https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
It runs through the month so get your submissions in before Oct 31st.


The Glasgow Coder Collective have our own Code Of Conduct we expect all members to abide by, but Hacktoberfest also has one. Please pay heed
https://do.co/hacktoberconduct

There are lots of resources on Git and GitHub
https://git-scm.com/book/
https://help.github.com/
And the Hacktoberfest website has some more
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/eventkit
Including a good PR guide from DigitalOcean
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-pull-request-on-github

The venue is ground floor of the Saltire Centre, Cally Uni's library
VP8X+WW8
https://w3w.co/nearly.hammer.lately
55.867287,-4.250172
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