GitLab October 2025 Hackathon

Get together with the GitLab community to contribute, learn and win exciting prizes. Join us from January 22nd 2025 through January 28th 2025!

The Hackathon is a virtual event open to anyone interested in contributing code, documentation, translations, UX designs, and more to GitLab. Participating in GitLab's Hackathon allows you to work on issues that matter to you and advance your skills/experience while joining a global, diverse, inclusive team of contributors and GitLab team members. The Hackathon is scheduled to run for 7 days, to be inclusive. This accommodates participants who contribute during both their work hours and free time.

NEW for this hackathon:
The scoring will be aligned with the individual leaderboard, recognizing all contribution types, including:

• Issue, note, label, and closing points
• Event and content points
• Forum and Discord points
• Translation points
• Bonus points

All activities on the hackathon leaderboard will be awarded at the same point value as activities on the main leaderboard.

To receive any points for the hackathon, contributors must merge at least 1 MR during the hackathon.

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