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How to get ready for Hacktoberfest 2022

Michelle Duke on September 26, 2022

Hacktoberfest is days away from starting. Registrations are already open and there is a flurry of events you can participate in. If you're planning...

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Nevo David • Sep 27 '22

Hi Michelle!
What do you think of HackSquad?
hacksquad.dev

Michelle Duke • Sep 27 '22

Ooooo very cool! Definitely signing up ❤️

Nevo David • Sep 27 '22

Yay!!

Michelle Duke • Sep 27 '22

That hoodie is lit 🔥 Definitely going to talk about this on my live stream.

Jaideep Sharma • Oct 1 '22

Hi Nevo! Can you tell us if issues having hacksquad tag count or any good issue counts?

Nevo David • Oct 1 '22

No, only MERGED PRs :)

Bobby • Sep 27 '22

Very exciting! The website is super awesome!

Michelle Duke • Oct 12 '22

yay, glad it's helpful!

ZigRazor • Sep 30 '22

Thank you for the detailed description!

Michelle Duke • Oct 3 '22 • Edited

My pleasure.

Shreyan Mehta • Oct 6 '22

Hi i have participated earlier, this year i want to participate via gitlab since that option is available. I created a repo for hacktoberfest in gitlab. The steps above are for github for making it eligible for hacktoberfest. what to do for gitlab to make that repo hacktobest eligible. Since there arae labels but that is different then github any luck @michelle

Michelle Duke • Oct 12 '22

I am only focused on GitHub sorry.

Andrea Tvilling • Jan 11 '23

for #Hacktoberfest 2023 - read Hacktoberfest guide and find ref in the middle of text

So it is best to look for projects on GitHub or GitLab that have the “Hacktoberfest” topic.
You can find eligible repositories on GitHub.
You can find eligible code repositories on GitLab.

so it's all about adding topic hacktoberfest to repo, but you will have to work afterwards:
(from Hacktoberfest 2022: Everything You Need to Know to Participate )

Participating as a Maintainer

To participate as a maintainer, you must facilitate participation for contributors. The first step is to either:

Add the hacktoberfest topic to your repository;
Or add the hacktoberfest-accepted label into your repository to be used on pull requests.

Then, you must merge four PRs into your repository during October. If you decide to use the second option mentioned in the first step, make sure to add the hacktoberfest-accepted label into these PRs.