:: Hacktoberfest 2023 :: 10th Anniversary :: Monstarlab Prague ::

Remember the last time we had a gathering of nice people, discussing interesting topics in the Monstarlab office with good food and great vibes?

Hacktoberfest Meetup is happening again! It has become a nice tradition to hold it every year and 2023 won’t be any different.As usual, we’ll talk about what Open Source (OS) is and how you can contribute to open source projects. This is a great event for all levels – whether you are a beginner and want to get introduced to OS, or an OS contributor that is already involved in projects.

Agenda & lineup
17:30 - Welcome, snacks, and networking
18:00 - Sprite 2D, a Blender add-on libraries - Kamel Mohamad (Monstarlab)
18:30 - Composing Android Studio Plugins - Roman Levinzon (Monstarlab)
Story about developing and maintaining Jetpack Compose UI Architecture Plugin for Android Studio and IntelliJ based products
19:00 - Desperate times call for desperate measures: Will open-source survive? - Fridolín Pokorný (Freelancer, ex-Redhat)
Join us to have a look at the current situation in the tech industry with the US Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity or the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act. Can we correlate it with the current state of the economy to see if we can spot any trend? Spoiler alert: we will satisfy both, optimists as well as pessimists: open-source will survive.
19:30 - CI Mindset & Six Sigma - Egemen Toprak (CI Program Manager, Redhat)
Talk with a goal to help people understand the continuous improvement mindset, and introduce key Lean Six Sigma tools that can be used to guide this journey
20:00 - Party party!

IMPORTANT!
If you're planning to come, please register for the event so we can provide your name to the reception for allowing you in on the event day.
IMPORTANT!!!
If you come to our premises after 6:30pm please call +420 775 251 618 so we can pick-you up from the reception as it will be closed already.

What's Hacktoberfest?
Hacktoberfest is DigitalOcean’s annual event that encourages people to contribute to open source throughout October. Much of modern tech infrastructure—including some of DigitalOcean’s own products—relies on open-source projects built and maintained by passionate people who often don’t have the staff or budgets to do much more than keep the project alive. Hacktoberfest is all about giving back to those projects, sharpening skills, and celebrating all things open source, especially the people that make open source so special.
For the past 10 years, thousands of people—coders and non-coders alike—have participated in Hacktoberfest to support the projects they use and love, learn and practice skills that will enhance their careers, and meet new people who love open source as much as they do.

Here’s what you need to know to participate and complete Hacktoberfest:

• Register anytime between September 26 and October 31
• Pull requests can be made in any GitHub or GitLab hosted project that’s participating in Hacktoberfest (look for the “hacktoberfest” topic)
• Project maintainers must accept your pull/merge requests for them to count toward your total
• The first 50,000 participants to have their first PR/MR accepted will have a tree planted in their name through Tree Nation
• Participants with four pull/merge requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 will receive a unique digital reward

See you!