The 5th edition of Hacktoberfest is around the corner, and it will be the second Hacktoberfest experience for the OpenEBS community. We are all excited and ready to go!
In August 2017, the OpenEBS community began growing, building a strong foundation for an open source project. We were first introduced to Hacktoberfest by friends and peers at the DigitalOcean Bangalore Meetup, and were immediately interested in participating. We enlisted OpenEBS as one of the projects participating in Hacktoberfest 2017. We were pleasantly surprised with the participation and enthusiasm that Hacktoberfest attracts from developers around the world. The result was that the OpenEBS community brought in 20+ new contributors with ~100 PRs.
We are excited to announce that OpenEBS will be participating in Hacktoberfest 2018 as well! Look for latest updates here.
GitHub makes it simple for contributors to get started. Just search for the tag “hacktoberfest” at the GitHub level. Within a few minutes, you can filter several issues to start working on what best matches your interest. First-timers can look out for the “good first time” tag. Here are some quick steps to follow if you are interested in participating.
When your PR to any OpenEBS repositories is merged, we will get in touch with you to fill out a form to send a special edition t-shirt designed for Hacktoberfest.
We will also send some of our popular mule stickers along with your t-shirt. The best PR also will win a new laptop. Additional details can be found here.
We hope to have even greater success in this year’s edition of Hacktoberfest. With that intention, we are hosting onsite workshops on all Saturdays in October in our Open Source Cafe — Bangalore.
Schedule on the day of workshops
10:00–10:30 AM — GitHub 101
10:30–11:00 AM — Hacktoberfest 101
11:00–3:00 PM — Hacktoberfest Onsite Hackathon
11:00–12:00 PM — On-demand 30 minute sessions such as Kubernetes 101 / OpenEBS 101
To help the beginners start their open-source journey, there will be 101-level courses in the mornings. All workshop participants will receive help from our team in getting started, and they all get to win the special edition t-shirts. Bring your own hacking gear, such as laptops!
As you will be lost in code while you are at the open-source cafe, we will bring the lunch to your hacking table :) Submit a PR on those days at the venue, collect the hacktoberfest t-shirt from the OpenEBS team, and if you order a beverage, that beer is on us. Yes, bring it on! :)
This year our theme for Hacktoberfest is “MULE HAS FRIENDS”. OpenEBS collaborates contributions from cloud native storage and data management. We want to drive the hacktoberfest enthusiasm to additional projects such as Weave Scope, Rancher LongHorn and Heptio ARK. This October, we are looking to help and receive more contributions for these open-source projects as well.
Happy hacking!!
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This article was first published on Sep 27, 2018 on OpenEBS's Medium Account.