Hacktoberfest 2019

Welcome to Hacktoberfest with MonSec and WIRED!

If you’re looking to get started with making your own pull request and to add yourself to the participants list, you can head straight to the Getting started with a pull request page!

You can find the official Hacktoberfest site at https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com, sign in to view your Hacktoberfest progress!

You can also find a copy of the presenter slides in the event repo!

Need help with Git/GitHub?

Look out for mentors/helpers with red lanyards if you’ve got questions or need assistance!

You can find GitHub resources (cheat sheets and guides) in addition to plenty of stickers over on the swag table!

Find issues/projects to contribute to

There are many starting points to help you find issues to contribute to on GitHub.

Look out for issues with the good first issue or beginner label, these are designed to budding contributors!

You can find all issues made especially for Hacktoberfest at https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/#projects, and you can filter by language to help you find projects that fit your skills!

Calls for help are regularly retweeted at https://twitter.com/hacktoberfest, as well as under the #Hacktoberfest hashtag!

There are countless sites that list projects looking for contributors, see https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/ and https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/details#tab1 to find the full list.

Thanks

Thanks to JuniorDev and GitHub for providing swag and helpful Git resources!

This project is based off previous Hacktoberfest workshops, including but not limited to

• https://github.com/juniordevio/hacktoberfest-halloween-graffiti
• https://github.com/josh-/juniordev-hacktoberfest
• https://github.com/twilio-labs/open-pixel-art