Hacktoberfest 12

A month-long celebration of all things open source

It’s that time of year again. Hacktoberfest is nearly upon us!

Prepare your projects, brace yourself for action—registration opens September 15, 2025.

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Sponsors

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AMD

Community Partners

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Cloud Native Computing FoundationOpen Source InitiativeDEVHolopin

Preptember

September is prep time for Hacktoberfest. Spend September getting a jump start on your four pull/merge requests by tracking down projects to contribute to, adding the ‘hacktoberfest’ tag to your own projects, or familiarizing yourself with Git so you can hit the ground running when Hacktoberfest begins on October 1.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Keep your connection to open source strong! Join other members of the open-source community in lively discussion on the Hacktoberfest Discord.
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Sponsors and awards for 2025

This year, Hacktoberfest is sponsored by DigitalOcean and MLH. We thank them for their ongoing support of open source ❤️

When DigitalOcean started Hacktoberfest in 2014, 676 participants showed up to contribute. In 2024, nearly 90,000 people participated. To help ensure we can keep the Hacktoberfest party going for another decade, this year as well, you’ll get an evolving digital badge for participating.

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Event spotlight

Events that bring the community together to learn and explore are a cornerstone of Hacktoberfest. Save these dates and come connect with other lovers of open source!

Hacktoberfest global kick-off: from code to community

The official start of Hacktoberfest! Join DigitalOcean developers and our guest speakers as we begin our month-long hacking event. Learn new skills, meet our sponsors, and support open-source projects and win exclusive DO SWAG!

Date: Oct 01Time: 9:00 AM Eastern Daylight TimeLocation: VirtualLink to register: TBA

Hacktoberfest satellite session #NYC

Join your fellow open source peers and join this DigitalOcean Hacktoberfest Hackathon in NYC. Contests, prizes and more!

Date: TBATime: TBALocation: TBALink to register: TBA

Hacktoberfest satellite session #Denver

Explore DigitalOcean OS Hackathon with Gradient AI, in association with MLH, Okta and AMD. Hackathon, contests, prizes and more!

Details: TBADate: TBALink to register: TBA

Hacktoberfest satellite session #Hyderabad

Explore DigitalOcean OS Hackathon with Gradient AI, in association with MLH, Okta and AMD. Hackathon, contests, prizes and more!

Details: TBADate: TBALink to register: TBA
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Support Open Source

Open-source projects, maintained by community-minded coders, make the modern internet function. Supporting that essential work, and the folks behind it, is what Hacktoberfest is all about.

DigitalOcean is proud to support open-source projects of all kinds. We offer credit grants to projects, assist with development, infrastructure, and testing, so open-source projects like yours can get a boost. Learn more and apply now.

You have skills that can help keep these projects continue running—let’s get to it.

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