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Hacktoberfest
Hacktoberfest is one of the most popular, well-attended annual global celebrations of open source. Every October, people from a variety of expertise backgrounds, and experience levels from all over the world come together and use their skills to help maintain open source projects.
Key Stats from 2022
146,891
Registered users
335,000
Accepted PRs/MRs
195
Represented Countries
Meet the Hacktoberfest Advisory Council
The Hacktoberfest Advisory Council ensures Hacktoberfest remains educational, fair, inclusive, and community-centric by bringing in people from outside DigitalOcean to provide earnest feedback and thoughtful guidance.
Spotlight: Estee Tey
Hacktoberfest 2021 was Estee Tey's second Hacktoberfest and she had set big goals for herself to go from non-technical contributions like documentation edits to more technically demanding ones.
A Hacktoberfest Contributor Story
“It was really interesting to explore different codebases and also communicate with the project maintainers to agree on a solution to achieve together. There were some hurdles in setting up some of the projects, but that's part and parcel for most newcomers onboarding dev projects.”
Stay up to date
We are working hard to bring you another great year of Hacktoberfest and can't wait to share the news. Join our email list or tune in to our Hacktoberfest discord server or Hacktoberfest Twitter to keep up to date with the latest announcements. There's much more open source love to come — so stay tuned and we look forward to seeing you at Hacktoberfest!
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