Socks for Pull Requests at TrailheaDX 2018

At this year’s TrailheaDX conference our Open Source Core team helped lead hundreds of Trailblazers through their first Pull Request — for which they received a fancy pair of Trailhead socks. We were at the conference to chat with developers, admins, and all sorts of Trailblazers about our open source projects and how the community can collaborate with us on these projects. We had some great conversations and gave away hundreds of Trailhead socks. In case you didn’t make it to the conference, here is what you missed…

We talked about our most recent open source project, Oclif, the Open CLI framework that Salesforce DX and the Heroku CLI are built on. The Design System React project (which provides React components for the open source Lightning Design System) was a huge topic of conversation and we had the core developer, Stephen James, there to answer questions about it.

At the booth we also demonstrated a simple Alexa bot we built with our open source Violet framework. The OctoViolet demo allowed us to ask Alexa questions about our open source projects, like “How many repos are in the Salesforce org?” This provided a fun and interactive way to show off our open source.

In order to get the socks, attendees had to send a simple Pull Request to the sock-it-to-me project. We received almost 250 Pull Requests, and for some attendees it was their first ever Pull Request. This provided a great opportunity to teach about how we collaborate with our community on our open source projects. The Git and GitHub Trailhead Module provides a great place to continue learning about the tools we use to do open source. We’ve also created a new Open Source Group on the Trailblazer Community so you can stay connected.

Overall it was a blast to be part of another TrailheaDX! Hope to see everyone at Dreamforce.