Hacktoberfest Open Hack Night

It's Hacktoberfest 2017! Let's celebrate open source over food, drinks, learning, and great company!

Agenda

• Open Networking

• Opening Remarks

• Intro to Open Source (Speaker: TBA)

• Contribute to Open Source (Speaker: TBA)

• 3-5 Minute Project Demos

• Team Pairings

• Hack Time

What's Hacktoberfest?

Hacktoberfest—brought to you by DigitalOcean and GitHub—is a month-long celebration of open source software. Maintainers are invited to guide would-be contributors 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.

Can't make it to this event? Hacktoberfest is virtual and open to participants from around the globe. Sign up to participate today (https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/).

About Our Event.

The goal of our hackathon is to help connect people who are new to contributing to an Open Source project and may not familiar with the process or may have their doubts about the process come together with those that are more experienced and get the help or guidance that they need to get their first of four pull requests knocked out and well on the way to completing the remaining three pull requests.

Rules and Prizes

First sign up on the Hacktoberfest site. 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.)

Connect with other Hacktoberfest participants (Hacktobefestants?) by using the hashtag, #Hacktoberfest, on your social media platform of choice.

New to DigitalOcean? Receive USD $10 in infrastructure credit at https://do.co/hacktoberfest17 .

Things to do before the event

• Make sure that you are registered for the Hackathon on DigitalOcean's Site at https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/sign_up/register this will help DigitalOcean track your progress throughout the event.

• If you don't already know of a project you would like to make a contribution to feel free to look through the vetted list of issues available at https://github.com/search?q=label:hacktoberfest+state:open+type:issue to see if any sounds interesting to you. At the end of the day any pull request to any repository counts.

Please read our Events Code of Conduct (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gFKOhyUqMZzrZcbq8A_TpO5x9J9HK6agv70awCH8pyI/edit?usp=sharing) before attending. Happy hacking

Resources

Git

• Learn the basics of Git in 15 minutes (https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1)

• How To Create a Pull Request on GitHub (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-pull-request-on-github)

• GitHub Training Kit (https://github.com/github/training-kit): Open source slides, workbook, and cheat sheet courseware for teaching Git and GitHub classes

• Git cheat sheets (https://services.github.com/resources/) in multiple languages

• Understanding the GitHub Flow (https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/)

• GitHub training sessions and webcasts (https://services.github.com/training/)

• Patchwork (http://patchwork.github.io/): Casual, mentored workshops for beginners to Git and GitHub

• More resources from GitHub (https://services.github.com/resources/)

Open Source

Open source 101 (http://opensource.guide/getting-started/)

Where to find Open Source projects to work on?

GitHub (https://help.github.com/articles/where-can-i-find-open-source-projects-to-work-on/)

Hacktoberfest (https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/#projects)

Find more resources and useful tips for participants on the Hacktoberfest site (https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/#resources).

FAQs

Why organize a Hacktoberfest-themed meetup?

• Increase awareness of open source in your community

• Enjoy contributing to open source in a social setting

• Meet project owners, maintainers, contributors, and community members in person

• Learn about the open source ecosystem: from how to start an open source project, to marketing your project, sustaining growth, and troubleshooting and maintenance.

How do I sign up for Hacktoberfest?

Register with your GitHub credentials at hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com (https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/).

When can I start?

You can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.

Who can participate in Hacktoberfest?

Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community!

What are the rules?

To win a shirt, you must sign up on the Hacktoberfest site and make four pull requests on GitHub by October 31st. (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.)

Where can I make pull requests?

Pull requests can be made in any GitHub-hosted repositories/projects.

What if I don't complete four pull requests by October 31st?

Everyone who participates receives limited-edition Hacktoberfest stickers—regardless if you complete the four pull requests or not.

Have questions?

Get in touch with our team by sending an email to hacktoberfest@digitalocean.com .