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Hacktoberfest is here — and this is the lowdown

Ben Halpern on October 01, 2022

Hacktoberfest has become a staple in open source. It's an annual tradition loved by many (and it's not for everyone, that's fine). But here is the...

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Oct 1 '22

That's great timing, I just finished my advice for smart and lazy wannabe open-source contributors.

Can beginners make a simple but meaningful contribution? Some unconventional advice #hacktoberfest

Jean-Michel Fayard 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇴 ・ Oct 1 ・ 7 min read

#beginners #opensource #hacktoberfest #github

Michalis Papamichael • Oct 4 '22 • Edited

Read the article. As a new contributor that was really informative and encouraging. Thanks a lot.

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Oct 4 '22

Thanks.
Do you know what to do next?

Michalis Papamichael • Oct 4 '22 • Edited

Personally I would go with that flow:
1) pick a project that I like
2) explore it and learn/understand how it works (review the codebase)
3) discuss my suggestion and opinions in open issues with the maintainers( as said in your article)
4) if all of the above goes well, start programing

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Oct 4 '22 • Edited

ok, then your next step is to pick the project you like.
Good luck

Chris Jarvis • Oct 1 '22

Signed up and looking for some issues.

Mahmoud Harmouch • Oct 1 '22

Nick Taylor • Oct 1 '22

Thomas Bnt ☕ • Oct 1 '22

✨🚀

Nicklas Gellner • Oct 1 '22 • Edited

Looking for cool Hacktober projects to contribute to, then check out the Medusa Hackathon with hoodies, tees, totes and a chance to win $1,500 for all participants!

Michael Tharrington • Oct 3 '22

Awwww yayeah! It's here. 🎃

By the way, if anybody has any posts OR people that they'd like to recommend reading for info on open source maintaining OR contributing, please drop'em in @erinposting's recent post here:

Follow Friday: Preptember Edition (30 September 2022)

Erin Bensinger for The DEV Team ・ Sep 30 ・ 1 min read

#meta #opensource #preptember #hacktoberfest

Aatmaj • Oct 1 '22

Signed up!

Parker Waiters • Oct 1 '22

Nice!

Vincent A. Cicirello • Oct 9 '22

If anyone is still looking for projects to contribute to for Hacktoberfest, I have a project looking for language translations. See my prior DEV post:

Hacktoberfest Language Translation Contributors Wanted for the user-statistician GitHub Action

Vincent A. Cicirello ・ Sep 30 ・ 4 min read

#hacktoberfest #github #contributorswanted #python

Piyush Acharya • Oct 7 '22

With Hacktoberfest in the horizon, I thought that it would be valuable to share an open source repository of mine.

DNAnalyzer

A highly efficient, powerful, and feature-rich algorithm for analyzing DNA sequences

**Repository: **github.com/Verisimilitude11/DNAnal...

The current algorithm just finished thorough testing with DNA samples from a variety of species. DNAnalyzer identifies proteins, amino acids, start and stop codons, high coverage regions, regions susceptible to neurodevelopment disorders, transcription factors, and regulatory elements in DNA strings. Researchers are working to extract valuable information from such software to better understand human health and disease.

Ways to Help
I'd be grateful for any help, whether in testing, science, code, formatting, accessibility, or anything else. If you know Java or a similar language, your assistance with adding new features would be greatly appreciated (including a CLI and GUI). Similarly, if you are more familiar with biology, I (and the rest of the team) would appreciate feature requests and bug reports. In any case, even if you aren't interested in contributing, please visit the repository and give it a star. The developer team is excited to see the flow of pull requests in the coming weeks!

ecyrbe • Oct 2 '22

Contributions are welcomed to

Zodios | Zodios

End-to-end typesafe REST API toolbox

zodios.org

Patrick • Oct 2 '22

Does it have some issues for hacktober?

Mia Moore • Oct 4 '22

Happy Hacktoberfest! This is my first year participating as a contributor, and I'm also helping organize Camunda's Hacktoberfest event!

Read more about contributing to Camunda repos, helping us plant trees where they're needed most, and earning a sweet, exclusive t-shirt!

Camunda's Hacktoberfest 2022

Mia Moore for Camunda ・ Oct 4 ・ 1 min read

#hacktoberfest #opensource #javascript #java

Aatmaj • Oct 5 '22

Here are my repos for Hacktoberfest 22 open for Contribution!!

github.com/Aatmaj-Zephyr/Java-OOP
github.com/Aatmaj-Zephyr/Clean-cod...
github.com/Aatmaj-Zephyr/Data-Stru...
github.com/Aatmaj-Zephyr/A-collect...
github.com/Aatmaj-Zephyr/Design-pa...
github.com/Aatmaj-Zephyr/Hangman
github.com/Aatmaj-Zephyr/Basic-mem...

Nour Assy • Oct 4 '22 • Edited

Happy Hacktoberfest🔥

Have a look at the Process Analytics project. It allows you to create cool visualizations of processes and data 🌈 Check the details here

For maintainers⚒️: You can promote your project with this application👇. It shows a process that visually explains the steps for contributors. You can easily adapt it to include your project name

Aatmaj • Oct 10 '22

Here are my repos open for contributions

Please feel free to contribute

Leonardo Montini • Oct 2 '22

Happy Hacktoberfest!

It will be a month full of fun and hopefully everyone will find some amazing projects to get involved for the long term and the months to come!

I also covered this celebration with some articles you can find on my profile here on dev.

If you're looking for a repository but you're still lost, have a look here :)

How to find a repository for Hacktoberfest 2022

Leonardo Montini for This is Learning ・ Sep 27 ・ 1 min read

#opensource #hacktoberfest #github #tutorial

Max • Oct 7 '22 • Edited

TL;DR: we’ve developed an open-source language for building full-stack web apps with less code and best practices that works alongside React and Node.js

Hello everyone! We’re a small team of open-source enthusiasts, passionate about web development and extremely tired of writing boilerplate code.

That’s why we created Wasp - an open-source web application configuration language that takes over all the routine work of creating a project backbone. You describe the application’s functionality (API endpoints, authorisation, deployment, etc.) in a single file. The compiler does the rest itself. The result is a full-fledged web app built with Node + React, created in a few minutes. We are backed by Y Combinator and engineers from Airbnb, Facebook, and Lyft.

Join us during HacktoberFest!

How to contribute
Docs
Good first issues

Matheus 🇧🇷 • Oct 1 '22

Nice!

Ivan Isaac • Oct 1 '22

Signed up!

srini047 • Oct 5 '22

Are there any specific timeline before which the article has to be created to be eligible for the badge?

Ren Hiyama • Oct 4 '22

Contributions are welcome for reejs: github.com/rovelstars/reejs 🙃

Adam K Dean • Oct 6 '22

Is completion of the challenge limited to 4+ PR/MRs or would 4 articles with the tag count as well? Would be a good occasion to write a few more articles, plus I do like to collect badges.

Jose Manuel Casani Guerra • Oct 16 '22

I have done the event in 2019 and 2021, the 2019 badge did not have an account, and the 2021 badge did claim it but they did not give it to me.

Can someone help me claim the 2019 and 2021 badge?

Clebson • Oct 10 '22

Contributions are welcomed to
github.com/OctobearHub/octobear.org

Clebson • Oct 10 '22

I received a badge in 2020, but I didn't redeem it (I didn't have an account yet), could someone help me? I still have the email with the link, but it's giving it as invalid.