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Ranjit Odedra
Ranjit Odedra

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All about Hecktoberfest

What is Hacktoberfest ?

  • it is an event that yearly organized by Digitalocean to to encourage people to contribute to open source.

What is Open Source ?

  • Open source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance.

Why I should participate in Hacktoberfest ?

  • By participating in Hacktoberfest you will learn about Git and GitHub.

  • you will opportunity to interact with people of different countries

  • you will get goodies

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Criteria

  • Have 4 pull/merge requests accepted between October 1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest

  • The first 40,000 participants (maintainers and contributors) who complete Hacktoberfest can elect to receive one of two prizes: a tree planted in their name, or the Hacktoberfest 2022 t-shirt.

register from here

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