What is Hacktoberfest 2021?

Rakesh Santwani — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:33:38 +0000

Hacktoberfest 2021 is the 8th edition of Hacktoberfest hosted by DigitalOcean. It is an open source festival celebrated during October every year, encouraging people worldwide to actively participate and contribute to participating open source projects hosted across GitHub and GitLab.

In fact, Hacktoberfest 2020 had attracted 169,886 participants and 116,361 participating open source repositories, representing 135 countries.

You can simply register yourself here and start contributing to any participating open source project from Oct 01 - Oct 31. And if you meet the contribution criteria set by DigitalOcean, you’ll receive a Hacktoberfest t-shirt🤩 from DigitalOcean!

Additionally, if you make successful contributions to LoginRadius open source projects, you’ll separately receive a LoginRadius branded Hacktoberfest t-shirt from us, recognizing and thanking you for your valuable contributions.

How to Contribute?

The exciting part about being involved in the open source community is that no matter how small or big your contributions are, the community will welcome your efforts and collaborate with you positively, sharing feedback and expressing gratitude.

Especially with LoginRadius open source projects, your contributions can make a big difference! We also try making your collaboration with us more enjoyable.

Please note that only contributions that add significant value to our projects will be eligible for swag. This will be at our sole discretion. But you may go ahead and contribute in any way you would like.

Prerequisites

. Git

. Github

. Forking a repository

. Creating a pull request

Win LoginRadius Branded Swag

By actively participating in Hacktoberfest, you make the open source community more sustainable, and, in turn, this makes you feel at home. Empowering one another is what best depicts the open source philosophy and is a reward in itself.

However, we want to make it more fun by sending cool t-shirts to all the accepted/eligible contributors. Just make sure to fill this form after you raise a pull request.

Don’t forget that your contributions to our projects also count towards your overall Hacktoberfest contributions calculated by DigitalOcean — and if you’re eligible, they’ll send you another t-shirt as well.

Let’s have fun with Hacktoberfest 2021!

i am also mentor in the Hacktoberfest so feel free connect with me

Thanks for reading....

5 Best Places to find Hackathons!🧑‍💻

Rakesh Santwani — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 05:14:04 +0000

Hackathons are probably one of the best places to network with people and simultaneously learn and enhance your skills and also who doesn't love swags? Here are the 5 best places to look out for in order to attend a hackathon👇

1.Major League Hacking (mlh.o)

Major League Hacking is one of my favorites and one of the best places to find hackathons. MLH organizes many hackathons for University students and it also provides .tech, .space, and .online domain free for a year. I have been a part of 2 MLH hackathons and the experience is amazing.

2.Devpost (devpost.com)

Devpost also has many exciting hackathons listed but mostly Hackathons use Devpost to help you find a team, submit your project, and look at other projects. I love Devpost as I can see other people's projects and get good ideas, isn't it cool?

3.Devfolio (devfolio.co/hackathons)

I came across Devfolio in the quarantine while searching for virtual hackathons. I haven't used it much but I like the UI/UX of the website and also I had an amazing experience during the hackathon.

4.HackClub (hackathons.hackclub.com)

HackClub is another great website to look for international hackathons for High School and University students. It has a wide list of hackathons to choose from.

5.Hackalist (hackalist.org)

Hackalist is a website that provides a list of upcoming hackathons around the world and also it is Open-Source. It also has a filter for hackathons that give travel reimbursement so it is awesome for people who like to travel, I haven't used this website but It has some good reviews.

These resources are more than enough to find and attend a hackathon, so what are you waiting for? Attend a hackathon and upskill yourself.

Thanks for reading..

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