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.