blog-posts Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open-source software that happens online every October, sponsored by Digital Ocean, the American cloud hosting company DigitalOcean. People are encouraged to engage and create at least 4 pull requests for open-source projects on GitHub. If you want to contribute to open-source projects but don’t know where to start, Hacktoberfest might be the perfect opportunity for you. /assets/images/2021/10/hacktoberfest.svg How does that work? Your goal is to contribute with at least 4 quality pull requests to the open-source project you like. Digitalocean will send every contributor achieving this goal a pack of goodies, including a t-shirt and set of unique stickers. Everyone is welcome, especially beginners. Just find the open-source projects you want to be involved in and do your bit! It is a simple process: :wave: Register for Hacktoberfest first. It is right here. :computer: Create pull requests to involve in your favorite projects - it must have a public GitHub repository. :white_check_mark: Make sure your pull requests match the quality standards from Hacktoberfest :bulb: Remember to let us know that you’re participating in the event. You can put information in the description. :busts_in_silhouette: Wait for the project maintainers to review your contributions. :repeat: Do it again to achieve the goal of 4 pull requests! Contribute to the PrestaShop project As an open-source project, PrestaShop is thrilled to take part in this challenge. We hope that you will help us with your contributions now, and in the future. We have a dedicated page in our documentation that should help you start. You can find it here. Want a small tip? Pick one of the good first issues to get all beginner-friendly improvements and bugs to fix. Read more about this label on Build. Want to meet your open-source mates? Go to prestashop.slack.com to join a worldwide community of open-source lovers and PrestaShop developers!View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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