Hacktoberfest 11

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Hacktoberfest Lore

Hacktoberfest is DigitalOcean’s annual event that encourages people to contribute to open source throughout October. Much of modern tech infrastructure—including some of DigitalOcean’s own products—relies on open-source projects built and maintained by passionate people who often don’t have the staff or budgets to do much more than keep the project alive. Hacktoberfest is all about giving back to those projects, sharpening skills, and celebrating all things open source, especially the people that make open source so special.

Each year Hacktoberfest gets a new look, but our mission remains the same… getting as many people as possible involved in open source. Thousands of people—coders and non-coders alike—have participated in Hacktoberfest to support the projects they use and love, learn and practice skills that will enhance their careers, and meet new people who love open source as much as they do.

Share your Hacktoberfest 🩷

Hacktoberfest is an open-source celebration that brings people together from all over the world to make a positive impact on open source. If you’ve had an experience that started with Hacktoberfest and led to something bigger, we would love to hear and share your story. We’ll pick some of the stories we receive to share with the community. Pictures, videos, and links are encouraged!

Writing Challenge

If you’d like to write about your experience participating in Hacktoberfest either as a contributor or a maintainer, we encourage you to participate in DEV’s Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge. Our partners at DEV welcome your writing, offering everyone who submits a post during the challenge a special Writing Challenge badge on their site. Plus, the best posts from the challenge will win a 6-month DEV++ Membership, an exclusive badge, and a gift from the DEV shop. You can share how you first heard about Hacktoberfest, how being part of the community has impacted your personal or professional development, or what projects you’ve been working on—here are some great examples. Once your post is live, let us know by tagging us in your social posts about it.

Social Media

Share your Hacktoberfest experience on social media! Tag us @hacktoberfest and use the official hashtag #hacktoberfest to tell others about your favorite contributions, any swag you’ve received in the past (share a pic!), or a particularly memorable hack.

We look forward to hearing from you and seeing how you’ve been part of the Hacktoberfest community!

Our Sponsors & Partners

Hacktoberfest could not happen without the generous support of our sponsors and partners. We invite you to learn more about them!

Our Sponsors

Founder

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean simplifies cloud computing so businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With its mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean helps developers at startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) rapidly build, deploy and scale, whether creating a digital presence or building digital products. DigitalOcean combines the power of simplicity, security, community, and customer support so customers can spend less time managing their infrastructure and more time building innovative applications that drive business growth. For more information, visit digitalocean.com.

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Advocate

Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to create an application modernization and AI strategy to consume, build, protect, and defend at scale. Cloudflare’s developer platform gives you a rich ecosystem of foundational technology built on open source and open standards. Your architecture choices shouldn’t be tied to a single vendor ecosystem. When you have the freedom to choose, you’re freed from costly cloud bills, sys-admin challenges, and configuration hassles freeing you to build the next big thing.

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Sustainer

Quira

Quira designs asynchronous online challenges that reward you for contributing to open source. Want to take your Hacktoberfest experience to the next level? Visit https://quira.sh/ and join our community of over fifty thousand contributors, creators, and tinkerers, who are learning new skills and earning rewards by playing with the dev-tools of the future.

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Our Partners

Holopin

Display, share, and issue digital badges for achievements. Showcase on GitHub, LinkedIn, and your favorite socials.

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Major League Hacking

Founded in 2013, Major League Hacking (MLH) is the global student hacker community and a Public Benefit Corporation that empowers the next generation of technology creators with programs that help them build real world skills and learn about leading developer platforms and APIs in a community oriented environment. Each year, MLH facilitates hundreds of weekend-long invention competitions called hackathons, supports campus clubs and meetups, trains developers on in-depth skills in the MLH Fellowship, and hosts thousands of developers from around the world in the monthly series of Global Hack Week events. These programs serve more than 150,000 developers a year across 90 countries.

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GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it’s never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

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GitHub Education

At GitHub Education our mission is to empower learners and educators with tools and resources to accelerate learning and develop the next generation of software professionals. From individual student developers to large educational institutions, we offer tailored programs and services, including access to real-world tools, free learning resources, and opportunities to connect with a global community of developers. With GitHub Education, we’re equipping a generation of future innovators to build the future.

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GitLab

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 30 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. Join 4,000+ contributors in GitLab’s open source community.

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CNCF

CNCF is the open source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud native computing, hosting projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus to make cloud native universal and sustainable.

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Open Source Initiative

Founded in 1998, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of Open Source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the Open Source community. It is the steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the global Open Source ecosystem. Join and support the OSI mission today at https://opensource.org/join.

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DEV

DEV is a community of software developers getting together to help one another out. The software industry relies on collaboration and networked learning, and DEV provides a place for that to happen.

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2024 Participation Rewards

For joining in the fun this year, participants in Hacktoberfest 2024 get a customizable digital badge from Holopin that gains new characteristics with each of your pull/merge requests. As each pull/merge request you submitted is accepted by maintainers, you’ll unlock a new level and customization for your badge, up to the four pull/merge requests to complete Hacktoberfest. As your skills evolve, so, too, will your badge!

Once Hacktoberfest 2024 is complete, you’ll be able to share your badge on the Holopin Hacktoberfest Badge Board of Fame to show-off your unique badge and to celebrate your hard-won victory! You can also embed your Holopin badge board, showing off all the Hacktoberfest badges you’ve collected over the years, on your GitHub or GitLab profile.

Advisory Council

Each year, we bring together a talented group of open-source superfans who help ensure that Hacktoberfest is accessible, inclusive, and enriching for both contributors and maintainers.

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[Senior Director, Developer Enablement - Chainguard]

Lisa Tagliafferi

Software Security, Python, Digital Humanities

Lisa Tagliaferri is Head of Developer Education at Chainguard. Working at the intersection of teaching, research, and development, Lisa is committed to lowering barriers of entry into technology and open source. Lisa has written popular open access books and tutorials on Python, machine learning and other technical topics, and is a maintainer and builder of open source software.

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[Open Source DevRel]

Eddie Jaoude

Open Source fullstack and DevRel, Javascript, Typescript, SQL, NoSQL, automation testing, DevOps

Eddie is an Open Source fullstack and DevRel expert, with experience in Javascript, Typescript, SQL, NoSQL, automation testing and DevOps.

The foundation of Eddie’s tech ethos is Open Source, as there is something in it for everyone. Eddie founded the EddieHub community to foster collaboration, communication and career development.

Eddie received the GitHub Star of the Year 2020 Award, GitHub Community Growth Award 2021 and GitHub Teacher of the Year Award 2022.

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[Sr. Technical Curriculum Developer at Temporal]

Mason Egger

Community-building, developer-focused educational content, distributed systems, Python

Mason is currently Sr. Technical Curriculum Developer at Temporal.io who specializes building community, developer-focused educational content, distributed systems, and Python. Prior to his work at Temporal he launched Developer Relations at Gretel.ai as the Lead Developer Advocate, and was a Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean specializing in Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies. His engineering experience includes time as an SRE helping build and maintain a highly available hybrid multi-cloud PaaS. He’s an avid programmer, speaker, educator, and writer/blogger. He is an organizer of PyTexas, President of the PyTexas Foundation, and actively contributes to open source projects. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, camping, kayaking, and exploring new places.

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[Developer Experience Lead]

Bekah Hawrot Weigel

Developer Experience, Community Building, Education, Course Creation, Front-End

Bekah graduated from a coding bootcamp in May of 2019 and since then has spent time as a frontend developer, started the Virtual Coffee developer community, spent time in DevRel and has continued to mom her four kids. She currently co-hosts the Virtual Coffee and Compressed FM podcasts, works as the Developer Experience Lead at OpenSauced, and lifts heavy things in her free time.