Gotcha. I imagine they are involved in some official capacity this year as well then.
It is strange to see Github attempting to "own" open source in this way though. Very antagonistic to the spirit of open source. Many of the projects I use are not hosted on Github, so this is an unfortunate decision (Ruby, Wordpress, Chromium, Firefox, Drupal, etc). Though it makes sense when viewed as an ad campaign.
I guess what annoys me about this is the branding as an "open source" event. I don't see it as an open source event, I see it as a Github event which happens to help open source. The github equivalent of a retailer donating some-percent of a purchase to charity.
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In the past the event has been clearly sponsored by Github. It is less clear if is is or not this year.
github.blog/2018-09-24-hacktoberfe...
Gotcha. I imagine they are involved in some official capacity this year as well then.
It is strange to see Github attempting to "own" open source in this way though. Very antagonistic to the spirit of open source. Many of the projects I use are not hosted on Github, so this is an unfortunate decision (Ruby, Wordpress, Chromium, Firefox, Drupal, etc). Though it makes sense when viewed as an ad campaign.
I guess what annoys me about this is the branding as an "open source" event. I don't see it as an open source event, I see it as a Github event which happens to help open source. The github equivalent of a retailer donating some-percent of a purchase to charity.