Hacktoberfest & Open Source

In this episode of GeeksBlabla, we discuss with our guests, Open Source and the much-hyped Hacktoberfest.

Guests

• Mohamed Ez-zarghili

• Abderrahim Soubai Elidrissi

• Ismail Ghallou

• Taoufik Abbassid

Notes

0:00:00 - Introduction

0:06:00 - Tell us about your first experience with Open Source.

0:16:00 - What exactly is Open Source?

0:22:00 - A brief history of Open Source and why does it exit.

0:35:00 - Is Open Source necessarily attached to GitHub?

0:39:00 - What are your thoughts on Microsoft acquiring GitHub?

0:47:00 - GitLab Vs GitHub.

0:48:00 - Why do large companies Open Source their tech?

1:03:00 - Is it possible for someone to build a product from his Open Source project?

1:12:00 - Facebook Developer Circles Community Challenge.

1:20:00 - Do Open Source projects have the most security vulnerabilities?

1:22:00 - Backdoors and vulnerabilities in Open Source-based products.

1:26:00 - What is Hacktoberfest?

1:29:00 - The story behind Hacktoberfest spam PRs.

1:34:00 - What Open Source is actually about?

1:38:00 - Donations and Open Source.

1:41:00 - What have you gained from Open Source as a contributor?

1:47:00 - What is PR (Pull Request)?

1:52:00 - Open Source in the Moroccan tech community.

2:02:00 - What are the requirements that aspiring Open Source contributors should meet?

2:10:00 - How to make a valuable contribution to an Open Source project for the first time?

2:19:00 - What are the challenges of maintaining a big Open Source project?

2:34:00 - What is the status of hackathons during Covid-19?

2:35:00 - Last words for Open Source enthusiasts.

2:46:00 - Wrap up and goodbye.

Links

• Hacktoberfest

• Open Source with Yassine Elouafi

• Facebook Developer Circles Community Challenge

• Devc-Casa repository to learn about open source code contributions flow

• List of awesome Moroccan things for developers

• freeCodeCamp

• Good First Issue

• Issue Hub

Prepared and Presented by

• Youssouf El Azizi

• Meriem Zaid