Hacktoberfest, in its 9th year, is a month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean. During the month of October, we invite you to join open-source software enthusiasts, beginners, and the developer community by contributing to open-source projects. You can do this in a variety of ways:
- Prepare and share your project for collaboration
- Contribute to the betterment of a project via pull requests
- Organize an event
- Mentor others
- Donate directly to open source projects
Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community!
Maintainers determine if their open-source projects participate by adding the ‘hacktoberfest’ topic.
- Register anytime between September 26 and October 31
- Pull requests can be made in any GITHUB or GITLAB hosted project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the “hacktoberfest” topic)
- Project maintainers must accept your pull/merge requests for them to count toward your total
- Have 4 pull/merge requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest
- The first 40,000 participants (maintainers and contributors) who complete Hacktoberfest can elect to receive one of two prizes: a tree planted in their name, or the Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt.
- Your pr/mrs must be within the bounds of hacktoberfest.
- Repos that go against hacktoberfest’s values will be excluded from qualification and pr/mrs made to those repos won’t count.
- Your pr/mrs must not be spammy.
- Your pr/mrs must be in a repo tagged with the “hacktoberfest” topic, or be labeled “hacktoberfest-accepted.”
- Your pr/mrs must not be labeled as “invalid”.
- Your pr/mrs must be merged, have the “hacktoberfest-accepted” label, or have an overall approving review.
- Once your pr/mrs pass all the checks above, it will be accepted for hacktoberfest after the 7-day review period.
Want to know how make your contributions to this repository, head over to CONTRIBUTING.md.