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Hacktoberfest
Hacktoberfest is one of the most popular, well-attended annual global celebrations of open source. Every October, people from a variety of expertise backgrounds, and experience levels from all over the world come together and use their skills to help maintain open source projects.
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Key Stats from 2021
141,802
Registered Users
294,451
Accepted PRs/MRs
194
Represented Countries
Meet the Hacktoberfest Advisory Council
The Hacktoberfest Advisory Council ensures Hacktoberfest remains educational, fair, inclusive, and community-centric by bringing in people from outside DigitalOcean to provide earnest feedback and thoughtful guidance.
Spotlight: Estee Tey, a Hacktoberfest Contributor Story
Hacktoberfest 2021 was Estee Tey's second Hacktoberfest and she had set big goals for herself to go from non-technical contributions like documentation edits to more technically demanding ones.“It was really interesting to explore different codebases and also communicate with the project maintainers to agree on a solution to achieve together. There were some hurdles in setting up some of the projects, but that's part and parcel for most newcomers onboarding dev projects.”
Read more about her journey with Hacktoberfest
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