DigitalOcean & GitHub present: Hacktoberfest in Bangalore

What is Hacktoberfest?

Hacktoberfest—in partnership with GitHub—is a month-long celebration of open source software. Maintainers are invited to guide would-be contributors (https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/) towards issues that will help move the project forward, and contributors get the opportunity to give back to both projects they like and ones they've just discovered. No contribution is too small—bug fixes and documentation updates are valid ways of participating. 2017 will mark the 4th year for Hacktoberfest!

Rules and Prizes

To participate, first sign up on the Hacktoberfest site (https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/). If you open up four pull requests between October 1 and October 31, you'll win a free, limited edition Hacktoberfest T-shirt. (Pull requests do not have to be merged and accepted; as long as they've been opened between the very start of October 1 and the very end of October 31, they count towards a free T-shirt.)

What is Hacktoberfest in Bangalore?

Hacktoberfest in Bangalore is an event that brings this online celebration offline, and is Hacktoberfest's official event! See below for the planned agenda.

Agenda

10 am: Doors open!

10:30–11:00am:

Introduction to Hacktoberfest & DigitalOcean

(Karan MV, India Outreach Specialist, DigitalOcean)

• What is Hacktoberfest and why does it happen

• History of Hacktoberfest

• What is DigitalOcean

• Why do we contribute to Open Source, why is OSS important to us

• Why did we start Hacktoberfest

11:00am - 11:30am:

The GitHub Universe 2017 & Beyond

(Amandeep Sandhu, Director of Marketing Operations, GitHub)

11:30am - 12:00 noon

Maintainer intros/pitches

• Umasankar Mukkara - OpenEBS

• Lalatendu Mohanty - Minishift

12:00noon – 1:00pm: “Hacking” for Hacktoberfest.

Engineers from DO and GitHub are there as volunteers to assist attendees with performing PRs and any questions that arise.

1:00–1:30pm: Wrap up!

This event is for programmers of all ages and levels! We look forward to seeing you!

Happy Hacking!