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Get your #Hacktoberfest shirt without writing a lick of code

Jerod Santo on October 01, 2018

Hacktoberfest is here once again, and we devs will do just about anything for a free shirt. However, there's a war inside us. The Acquire Free Sw...
 
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Stargator

But Hacktoberfest is a GitHub only thing, right? It's a partnership between DigitalOcean and GitHub to just encourage more open source contributions.

You are right that there's nothing stopping DigitalOcean to include support for GitLab or Bitbucket, but after a few years of Hacktoberfest, it doesn't seem like they are interested.

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Sebastian-Nielsen • Edited

So let me see if I understood this correctly ... I create a pull request that involvs a change in one of their transcripts, perhaps I found a spelling mistake, and then I will as a reward get a free t-shirt for contributing ?

Do you they contact me or anything, how do I get that sweet t-shirt :)

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Jerod Santo

Register for Hacktoberfest right here and then they will automatically track how many PRs you open during the month. It takes 5 PRs opened to earn a shirt, but that shouldn't be too tough. ✊

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Justin Kasahara

Done one so far, but I thought it was pretty fun so I'd like to keep listening and helping out even after Hacktoberfest is over! Thanks for the opportunities!

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Jerod Santo

Awesome, glad you're enjoying the show! 🙌

(and thanks for the help 🤗)

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Donna Hogan

Is there a list of episodes whose transcript or show notes needs attention?

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Jerod Santo

Unfortunately, no such list exists. The best way to find an episode is:

  1. Peruse the catalog (our master feed has every episode we put out)
  2. Pick one that interests you
  3. ⌃f or ⌘f search in your browser for the term 'unintelligible'

Hope that helps! Btw, if you are at all interested in Plex, I noticed our most recent episode of Backstage has a bunch of unintelligible sections that need fixin'! 💚

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Donna Hogan

Thank you! I just went in and fixed 17 [unintelligible]s for that episode and had fun too <3

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Juan F Gonzalez

I think I'll be able to get some spare time this weekend for this, listening to tech podcasts also sound like a good idea. :)

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JSON

do you shoulder shipping fees? :D

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Anthony Bouvier

Well, the author doesn't, but Digital Ocean does. This is a month long event and yeah you don't pay any shipping fees (well, to the US you don't, I don't know if this is open everywhere honestly. Hopefully it is.)

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Stargator

They require GitHub, so they can track the number of Pull Requests you did in October.