October is here, and that means Hacktoberfest is back! Whether you're new to coding or a pro, this is your chance to dive into the open-source world, contribute to real projects, and join a global community of developers.
Let’s go🚀
In this article, I’ll highlight the events, open source tips and some cool projects to take part in this Hacktoberfest. Ready to code, collaborate, and have some fun? Let’s get started!
Hacktoberfest
Hacktoberfest is a month-long event where anyone, from beginners to pros, can dive into open-source projects! It’s all about coding, collaborating, and making a real impact during the month of October.
Whether you’re looking to learn or contribute, Hacktoberfest is the perfect way to be part of the global developer community! This year, Hacktoberfest is supported by DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, and Quira.
How to participate:
Register on the Hacktoberfest website.
Find repositories with the “Hacktoberfest” label on GitHub or GitLab and get involved.
Make four valid pull requests (PRs) before October 31st.
Few important considerations:
Everyone is welcome
Quantity is fun, quality is key
Short-term action, long-term impact
Checkout all the rules, resources and good practices for contributors as well as maintainers on the Hacktoberfest participation page
Tips and Resources for Open Source 1st Timers🙌🏼
If you’re new to open source and planning to start your journey this year, you have to keep few things in mind before going to the real projects and contribution. Check this guide I wrote in past:
How NOT to contribute to Open Source on GitHub: Tips For Beginners | Mr. Ånand
While maintaining some projects on GitHub during Hacktoberfest 2021, I came across many new open source contributors. They are just starting their open-source journey and making mistakes. In the beginning, making mistakes is not a bad thing. But, correctly contributing to open-source projects is also very important. In this article, I am going to discuss some tips on - How Not to contribute to Open-Source on GitHub.
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If you want to explore open source in more detail, check this article I wrote last year:
How to Contribute to Open Source: The Ultimate Guide to Collaborative Software Development
Learn best-practices for how to contribute to open source software development projects, the benefits, dos and don’ts, community culture, and more.
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Exciting Events🎉
Tolgee
Tolgee is an open-source localization tool that helps developers easily create multilingual apps, making it simple to add translation features and reach a global audience.
Swags👕
According to the points, you'll get this amount of swag:
30 - 40 points - Tolgee Sticker set
40 - 45 points - Tolgee Sticker set + Tolgee Socks
45 - 50 points - Tolgee Sticker set + Tolgee Socks + Tolgee T-shirt
Carefully read all the details about the rules and valid ways to contribute on the Tolgee announcement page before proceeding.
Crawlee for Python
Crawlee is a Python library for web scraping and browser automation, perfect for building reliable crawlers. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs, and download files like HTML, PDF, JPG, and PNG. It integrates with BeautifulSoup, Playwright, and raw HTTP, supporting both headful and headless modes with proxy rotation.
Swags👕
1-2 Accepted Pull Request: Crawlee Exclusive Sticker Sheet.
2 or more Accepted Pull Requests: Crawlee Exclusive Hoodie.
Carefully read all the details about the rules and valid ways to contribute on the Crawlee announcement page before proceeding.
CopilotKit
CopilotKit is an open-source framework that enables seamless integration of AI Copilots into any application. Quickly set up custom AI chatbots, agents, text areas, and more.
Swags👕
⭐ 4 Ways to Earn 10 bonus points for each (Swag is only available if you complete a demo) :
Write and share a tutorial about your app on dev.to that receives up to 30 or more reactions.
Post about your project on Twitter and get at least 10 reactions.
Solve
good first issue's that get merged.Create a YouTube video promoting your CopilotKit project that recieves up to 100 views.
Carefully read all the details about the rules and valid ways to contribute on the CopilotKit announcement page before proceeding.
LambdaTest
LambdaTest is a cloud-based platform that allows you to test your websites and applications across multiple browsers and operating systems. With real-time testing and automated screenshots, it helps ensure your project looks great everywhere!
Swags👕
Apart from official Hacktoberfest swag, contributors to their projects will get a chance to win:
3 Contributions – Amazon Vouchers (upto $10) + LambdaTest Lisenses (90 days).
5 Contributions or More – Amazon Vouchers (upto $20) + LambdaTest Lisenses (90 days).
Carefully read all the details about the rules and valid ways to contribute on the LambdaTest announcement page before proceeding.
oss.gg hackathon 2024 🕹️
oss.gg Hackathon is a new kind of open source event brought to you by some exciting companies like dub, formbricks, hanko, openbb, papermark, twenty and unkey.
Swags👕
Complete code and non-code contributions to get points, each point is a lottery ticket. Lottery happens on 31st of October 2024🎃
- Macbook Pro 2023 M3 14"
- Macbook Air 2023 M3 15"
- iPhone 16 with 512GB
- Playstation 5
- AirPods Pro 3rd Gen
- AirPods Pro 3rd Gen
- EPOMAKER EP84
- EPOMAKER x AULA F75
- EPOMAKER x AULA F75
- a brick 🧱
Carefully read all the details about the rules and valid ways to contribute on the oss.gg announcement page before proceeding.
Great Projects🔥
KitOps
KitOps is a powerful packaging and versioning system for AI/ML projects that integrates effortlessly with your existing tools. It helps teams track and control access to AI artifacts while making collaboration smooth for data scientists, developers, and SREs.
With KitOps, you can create ModelKits—portable, OCI-compliant packages that include everything your AI project needs. This simplifies deployments and rollbacks, making your workflows safer and faster.
Join the excitement during Hacktoberfest and get a chance to win some cool swags👕 by contributing to open issues in KitOps! Your contributions can help shape the future of AI project management!
Points to note:
Follow code of conduct and contributing guide before starting.
You can start working on issues tagged with
“hacktoberfest”once assigned by maintainers. You can also create useful new issues to add features or improve the project.KitOps has over 20k installs, demonstrating impressive growth in the MLOps space. If you're a developer exploring AI/ML, consider getting involved in the growing KitOps community!
Frontend AI
WebCrumbs aims to become the industry standard for modern web development by building the first open ecosystem of plugins for the JavaScript community and frameworks like React, Next.js, Vue, and Svelte. With their intuitive admin panel and a vibrant community contributed plugins, anyone—developer or not—can easily create, manage, and enhance their websites.
Join the excitement during Hacktoberfest and get a chance to win some cool perks⚡ by contributing to WebCrumbs! There are some exciting way to contribute on Frontend AI.
Check all details and instruction on their announcement post:
If you're looking to get involved with more advanced projects, you can check out:
Layer5 · GitHub
Expect more from your infrastructure. Layer5 has 34 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Where to find projects to contribute?
If you're looking for more Hacktoberfest events, check out this article:
Let me know, how excited are you to contribute to open source this Hacktober? 👀
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