Sourav Dey
Facebook Developer Circle 🏆 - Open Source Immersion Challenge 2020

Facebook Developer Circle 🏆 - Open Source Immersion Challenge 2020

07 Dec, 2020 • 1 min read

My experience contributing to Facebook's open-source projects, finishing in the 🏆 top 1000 participants worldwide.

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Got Facebook Developer Swags 😁😁 for Contributions to Facebook-led Open Source projects in Facebook Open Source Immersion Challenge, a month-long initiative by Developer Circles from Facebook.
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What is Facebook Open Source Immersion Challenge?

Facebook Open Source Immersion Challenge initiative is a month-long celebration of Open Source technology, run by Facebook. The goal of this initiative is to provide developers with practical education and experience contributing to Open Source projects in preparation for our annual Developer Circles Community Challenge later this year.
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✨ Want to know more about it: here

Steps to Participate

  • Register or login at github.com
  • Sign up on the Developer Circles Open Source Immersion registration page
  • Sign Facebook’s contributor license agreement (CLA) here
  • Create a minimum of 4 contributions/PR into Open Source projects with at least 1 out of 4 PR towards any project within DevC GitHub Org or any Facebook-led Open Source project. Make sure you submit these before the deadline, August 15, 2020, at 11:59:59 PM PST.
  • Share your GitHub profile or the link of your PR to your local Developer Circles Facebook group.

Here is the list of Pull Requests:

PRs
You can also check the PRs in my Github profile.

Finally, Got the email

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Achieved Swags from Facebook for being in the top 1000 of the Open Source Developer Immersion 2020

I have also shared a LinkedIn post regarding the same.

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