Hacktoberfest

Summary

Hacktoberfest is an annual worldwide competition throughout October to encourage code and non-code contributions to open source repos.

Their official contribution section states:

Register anytime between September 26th and October 31st

Pull requests can be made in any GitHub or GitLab hosted project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the “hacktoberfest” topic)

Project maintainers must accept your pull/merge requests for them to count toward your total

Have 4 pull/merge requests accepted between October 1st and October 31st to complete Hacktoberfest

The first 40,000 participants (maintainers and contributors) who complete Hacktoberfest can elect to receive one of two prizes: A tree planted in their name -or- The Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt.

This repo keeps track of Techlahoma's contributions to the competition.

Table of Contents

• Hacktoberfest
  • Summary
  • Setup
  • Usage
  • Low or Non-Code Contributions
  • TODO
  • Further Reading

Setup

• Install
  • editorconfig

Usage

• editorconfig
  • Install an editor plugin
  • Configure formatting (e.g., yaml, tf, py)
  • Make sure the .editorconfig file is either in the top-level directory of the repo or in your $HOME directory (root = true)

Low or Non-Code Contributions

Hacktoberfest is allowing low or non-code contributions which includes:

• Talks or presentations
• Technical blog posts
• Podcasts
• Case studies
• Social media

These contributions must be made in the month of October 2022.

How to Contribute

Create a new your_contribution_title.yaml file into the /advocacy with the following format:

name: John Smith
title: Here is my talk/podcast/etc. post title.
url: https://example.com/my-dash-blog-post
date: 2022-10-31
description: Here is a brief description and any supplemental information for my talk/podcast/etc.

TODO

• Add content

Further Reading

Hacktoberfest

Techlahoma

editorconfig