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Join the 2024 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge: Reflect on your Journey as a Contributor or Maintainer

Hacktoberfest is officially in full swing! Throughout the month of October, developers from all around the world are coming together to contribute to open-source projects, learn, and grow as a community.

This year, we are excited to support this annual celebration of open-source by providing a space for maintainers and contributors to reflect on and write about their 2024 Hacktoberfest journey.

Running through November 03, the Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge is an opportunity to share your Hacktoberfest experience (regardless of whether or not you complete the four PRs required!) and hone in your writing skills.

For this challenge, we’ll have a prompt for project maintainers and a prompt for contributors. Each prompt will have at least one winner (possibly more depending on how many people complete the challenge) and all participants who publish a valid submission will receive a completion badge.

Prompts

Maintainer Experience

Maintainers! You are the heart of Hacktoberfest. Without you, this celebration wouldn't be possible! Please use this opportunity to record your 2024 experience, whether it was your first or eleventh time maintaining a project that participated in the celebration.

Did you receive valuable contributions? What surprised you this year? How are you doing? Let us know!

Maintainer Submission Template

Please review all challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

Contributor Experience

Contributors! You are the lifeblood of Hacktoberfest, ensuring it keeps beating on every year (Sorry, this analogy is getting a bit gross. We’ll stop here). Whether or not you fulfilled all four PRs this year, please take a moment and reflect on your 2024 Hacktoberfest experience.

What did you learn? How do you feel? Tell us all about it!

Contributor Submission Template

Please review all challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

Judging Criteria and Prizes

Both prompts will be judged on the following:

  • Style and presentation
  • Clarity
  • Originality

The winner of each prompt will receive:

All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.

How To Participate

In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template associated with each prompt.

Please review our full rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contests rules such eligibility requirements.

Important Dates

  • October 02: begins!
  • November 03: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
  • November 05 November 14: Winners Announced

We hope you enjoy the freedom to framework, and we can’t wait to see what you build! Questions about the challenge? Ask them below.

Good luck and happy coding!

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Ben Halpern

Good luck everyone!

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Jonas Brømsø • Edited

Wrote a brief post today on Hacktoberfest 2024, before discovering this challenge - anyway

challenge accepted!

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Ana Maria | Tecnologia

Hacktoberfest 2024! Vamos contribuir em projetos colaborativos, devs! 🚀

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Tanvi

Hey friends, I'm participating! Can you please do me a favor? Check out my post! I know you're sure gonna love it!😍

dev.to/tanvis001/contributor-exper...

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Jeeva Ramanathan • Edited

Hey everyone! 🌟 Just wanted to share a quick tip for showcasing all your Hacktoberfest contributions. You can make use of AI-Powered GitHub PR Tracker to create a single, sharable link that displays all your pull requests submitted for the Hacktoberfest event. 🚀

Check it out here: GitHub PR Tracker
Dev Post: AI-Powered GitHub Pull Request Tracker for Your Hacktoberfest (and More!) 📝

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Ana Maria | Tecnologia

Escrevi um artigo Hacktoberfest: contribuindo em projetos open source com a comunidade dev sobre Hacktoberfest 2024 e o Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge do @thepracticaldev .

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Syed Muhammad Ali Raza

Best of Luck Dev's

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Jeanine Duchaney

@thepracticaldev I'm working on a series for this prompt. Is it possible for the entire series to be considered as a whole? The rules state you can only submit to each prompt one time. However, for my situation, entering one post out of context wouldn't make much sense.

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Jeanine Duchaney

Gently following up here and looping in the tag moderators, since the deadline is approaching @ben @jess @peter . Thank you!

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Jess Lee

@jlduchaney that's fine!

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Jeanine Duchaney

@jess Thanks for confirming! In that case, I will leave the submission template on all of my posts within the series.

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Alizay Yousfzai

I was a bit confuse before where to post the blog but then finally got understand and posted the same blog on the community hope when u read it u enjoy it best of luck everyone one more thing wants to contribute in coding by just knowing html css go through my repo's i will merge ya small tasks tata

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Vaibhav Dwivedi

Looks great. All the best!

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