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

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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:

6-month DEV++ Membership
Exclusive DEV Badge
A gift from the DEV Shop

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.