The first time I learned about open source was through a tweet that promoted Hacktoberfest in 2019. And my first-ever accepted pull request was to add a book title in emojis to a list. You might think, "You can't count that as an open source contribution. That's a joke!" I

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The first time I learned about open source was through a tweet that promoted Hacktoberfest in 2019. As a newbie, I learned how to communicate with the maintainers, how to work with Git and GitHub, and how to create a pull request. You can't assume that all projects on GitHub are open source.

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