About Hactoberfest

Hacktoberfest is a month-long, community-wide celebration of open source software. It was started in 2013 and in this first year, nearly 700 contributors participated. Over the years it has grown to a community of nearly 150,000 participants in 135 countries, who participate by sharing their projects, making pull requests, attending events, donating and showing their support of open source. It is run by DigitalOcean alongside partners like GitHub and Twilio.

To participate, one must make four valid pull requests submitted to public GitHub repositories. On top of a boost to your open-source cred, participants are rewarded with prizes, like stickers, T-shirts, or a new plant-a-tree alternative.