Hacktoberfest: A month-long celebration of open source software

hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com

119 points·dekhtiar··6 comments

I really like Hacktoberfest, I think it's a great way to get people involved in open source.

The T-shirt design is always good.

I'm sending out an email to my coworkers who usually wouldn't participate in open source and offering them help on how they could make their 4 pull-requests for the month.

Bonus: even if you don't get the T-shirt, they often still send you stickers.

Forcing this to be an GitHub-exclusive event is a massive shame. I wonder why they have such restriction instead of promoting to contribute to any FOSS, anywhere.

How would they track pull requests? I agree that it would be nice if it wasn't just restricted to github and the kinds of projects most likely to be hosted there, but it does simplify things on their end.

I do wish they had a way to prevent people from gaming it with fake projects just to get a free T-shirt, especially when there still seem to be others that never receive one. It also just goes against the spirit of the event.

Probably because github is a big sponsor and the host of 95% of the OSS work in the past 10 years.

For one, GitHub and DigitalOcean both had Series A investments led by the same partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digitalocean/investo...

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/github/investors

Hacktoberfest is great! It's a perfect excuse to dig through a lot of random repos and find something interesting and unrelated to anything I typically do to make a few PRs to.

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