"Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software." - DigitalOcean
Hacktoberfest® encourages participation in the open source community.
Register at hacktoberfest.com.
- 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
- The first 50,000 participants to have their first PR/MR accepted will have a tree planted in their name through Tree Nation
- Participants with four pull/merge requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 will receive a unique digital reward
In all of the Hacktoberfest excitement, many companies want to join the celebration by rewarding their contributors with even more swag! That's why we're here!
The purpose of this list is to incentivize meaningful contributions. If you intend to make low-value changes -- just for swag. Don't.
QUANTITY IS FUN, QUALITY IS KEY
Who | What | How | Additional Details |
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DigitalOcean + Sponsors | How to contribute?Starting 2023, Hacktoberfest will be moving away from the official t-shirt rewards to a digital reward kit in partnership with Holopin. Four pull requests to any participating public repo on GitHub or GitLab. To reduce spam DigitalOcean introduced new measures in 2020: PRs count only if: Submitted in a repo with the hacktoberfest topic AND during the month of October AND (The PR is merged OR The PR is labelled as hacktoberfest-accepted by a maintainer OR The PR has been approved) |
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You can contribute by resolving a Hacktoberfest issue on GitHub.
New to contributing? You can look for good first issues or go to Up For Grabs.
Know of another Hacktoberfest swag opportunity? Learn how to contribute to this repository by reading our contribution guidelines.
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