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How to Participate in Hacktoberfest

BekahHW on September 05, 2023

The countdown to Hacktoberfest has begun! Hacktoberfest, the month-long open source challenge sponsored by DigitalOcean, rewards contributors who s...
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Saurabh Rai

Thanks Bekah for this post. I'll share two communities where you can contribute to.

Swirl Search (It's a python based search engine with LLMs): github.com/swirlai/swirl-search

Resume Matcher (Resume Optimization tool): github.com/srbhr/Resume-Matcher

They're both amazing places to start with open source and Hacktoberfest in general.

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BekahHW

Thanks for sharing!

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Ismaël Guerrib

Thanks for this really useful post with a lot of ressource ! I really think that opportunities like Hacktoberfest are a good way to promote OS ! And as a maintainer on an Open-Source CRUD app builder I look forward to see what will be the contributions !

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Olivia73-code

Thank you for this post, its good to see that there are other ways that I can contribute other than code, such as reading documentation and making sure it is clear. I think I will get involved and see how I can help :).

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PiroAvni

as a junior developer can I join?

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BekahHW

Absolutely! It’s open to everyone.

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Chirag Aggarwal

Excited to participate again in Hacktoberfest! Great post for beginners!

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David W.

This will explode this year with the help of AI people will feel much more comfortable to assist. Let's see how this works out at the end

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Leo Nogueira

Nice post!

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BekahHW

Thank you!

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Abian Peñate

Hello everybody,

Interesting article, but I have a question regarding Open Sauced. Looks like you pay to code for an open source project, am I right?

If this is the case, how are they going to compete with @quine_sh ?

I'm just asking as I'm new to coding and I would love to collaborate with open source projects as I've been using Blender for a long time.

I found que @quine_sh formla quite interesting, paying you for your contributions.

Anybody has experience with both platforms?

Thanks

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BekahHW

You don't pay to code on OpenSauced. You can check out all our open source repos here.

Quine_sh isn't a competitor. We're doing very different things. At OpenSauced we're supporting contributors on their journey, redefining contributions and what's valuable, and helping maintainers find recognition, highlight their projects and work, and track the health and growth of their projects.

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Abian Peñate

Thank you for explaining it to me @bekahhw