Hii there! I'm organizing a local Hacktoberfest event from my community, Nepali Women in Computing, and we are looking for speakers! (Preferably women and non binaries)
The number of women in tech is in itself too few, and in my community, I can literally count in hands the number of women I have seen contributing in open source (and even I'm not one of them), so I am taking this as more of an opportunity to start the conversation, and introduce the culture for us to get into open source and start contributing for the sake of contributing to a community rather than complete pull requests for a t-shirt (Sorry, I don't mean to discourage Hacktoberfest, rather addressing that the community isn't there yet that the event would help get the pull requests, and that we should work on the foundations first).
My main target groups are students who are in final years of college, and early career graduates at their first jobs, or who are in the process of finding their first jobs, to get exposed to open source, so they can get this experience and leverage this thing for the professional experiences that they don't yet have, which the jobs would usually demand. And of course, develop the sense of belonging.

So, if anyone would like to share and support us, we are organizing an event on 18th October. Please help us find relevant speakers and get the word out! Thanks a lot!

[EDIT: We might be taking this event beyond Hacktoberfest, and maybe even beyond October so it's not lost in the temporary hype for this month, and give us more time to plan properly. Please reply to this comment or reach out to me via twitter if you'd like to speak and/or collaborate!]

Hey, I just received a mail about a github badge of the Hacktoberfest?
Could anyone tell me how I get that badge (I have completed all 4 required PRs)

please read "this note" from DigitalOcean for more information on how those will be treated.

In this part of the post the this note link doesn't redirect to a DigitalOcean blog or post could you fix that?

Thanks!

the link to this note isn't

They should also add rules against making PRs on your own repos if they haven't already done that.

Hey. Check out coders-railroad, a fun Hacktoberfest project. Add your cart to the HF2020 train by learning how and submitting a PR :) 🚂

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@jess Just to clarify, I made a few PRs that were merged already when Hacktoberfest started. But none of them have the hacktoberfest label on it. You're saying that they won't count is that right? Thanks.

Hi guys and Happy Hacktoberfest 2020! 🎉

I will share our three repos. We focus on providing knowledge and tools to make developers' and team leaders' lives better and easier. If you are interested, we are looking forward to your contributions :) Btw. you might win our custom merch if you will be the most active contributor! 😊

DX Scanner - Mostly for-developers project. Open source tool for measuring the quality of your code and suggesting improvements.
👉 Link: github.com/DXHeroes/dx-scanner

DX Knowledge Base - Mostly for-techwriters projects, all though developers can improve their writing skills as well ✍️ Open source Knowledge Base with topics related to developer experience and the process of software creation.
👉 Link: github.com/DXHeroes/knowledge-base...

Pipeliner - Cool new project for Swift developers. It is a Mac OS Big Sur Widget app for monitoring your pipelines and soon, much more. It is still in early stages of development, so it is a perfect project you can shape with us and leave your permanent signature on.
👉 Link: github.com/DXHeroes/Pipeliner

Have a wonderful day!
Dominik from DX Heroes

Hey, I am having a problem with the fest. It's my first time participating. Yesterday I got a Successful pull request and it showed on my hacktober fest profile/progress. But now it is back to 0.
WHY IS THAT? Can anybody clarify my problem?

It's my first year in Hacktoberfest and I must say that I like the idea, but I have to say I'm disappointed to discover only today that the rules have changed for the selected repositories. When I started preparing for HacktoberFest, I found one project and I made some PR, even found it trough the ressources available on the website to find open source project. And today, I have my 4 PR, but all this work was for nothing in the end, because I have to now find another (Or 4. projects) in the new list that was release on the second day of the event.... Kind of disappointing....

It's hard to have a contribution to an OSS, I swear! So I hope if anyone receives so many spams because of this event, please be patient and try to keep it more simple. Not about the T-shirt, your answer to any spam PR can make people understand why they need to complete their PR with high responsibility. Can! Can!
Cheers!

Hacktoberfest may just be more bad than it is good

I have a question, please. What happens when you change the github access token to the repo that was recently registered for #Hacktoberfest? seems like PRs get rejected because of this. Is there any way to fix it?

Thanks for this amazing event. So glad to take part in Hacktoberfest every year :) ... Are you still awarding DEV badges? Greetings from Mexicoooooo

How to get hacktoberfest batch ?

Happy DDoSfest!

DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source
blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/

This list of Hacktoberfest repos doesn't allow you to filter by Ruby :(

Looks like dev.to been copping some hacktoberfest spam 👀

thanks

Hey Guys
Just wondering if the Hacktoberfest 2020 badge has been added to your profiles. It's been more than 3 weeks so was wondering when can I expect the badge to be added?

Finally I completed it . It was my first time #Hacktoberfest2020