Open source is changing the world - one pull request at a time.
Hacktoberfest is a month long virtual festival event to celebrate open source contributions presented by Digital Ocean and DEV. It is the easiest way to get into open source!
During the entire month of October 2020, all you have to do is contribute to any open source projects and open at least 4 pull requests. Yes, any project and any kind of contributions.
The Hacktoberfestâs simple plain objective is: Support open source and earn a limited edition T-shirt! But, itâs not just about the t-shirts or stickers. Its about supporting open source. Its about celebrating open source, and giving it back. If youâve never contributed to open source before, this is the perfect time to get started because Hacktoberfest provides a large list of available contribution opportunities.
HacktoberfestÂź is open to everyone in our global community. Whether youâre a developer, student learning to code. You can contribute to anything from code to simple fix, new feature to grammar mistake.
Contributing to open-source is easy.
Even if your pull requests arenât accepted, they should still count toward your 4 pull requests necessary to earn the shirt. The only exception would be if the project maintainer chooses to mark your pull request as âinvalidâ. They may do this if they perceive your pull request to be low effort, or if it contains plagiarism.
Any pull request made to a public repo on GitHub will count. The pull request must contain commits you personally made yourself â not automated commits from bots.
You can contribute to any open source project hosted on Github.com and contribute anything between October 1 to October 31 midnight in 2020. You will find plenty of issues labeled with hacktoberfest or good-first-issue etc on Github. These will be the simple ones most probably and easy to fix.