What Is Hacktoberfest?

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• What Is Hacktoberfest? | 00:02:08
  - Month-long annual event by Digital Ocean that promotes contributing to open-source projects
  - GitHub & GitLab
  - Get a T-shirt or tree planted in your name
  - Some projects have their own prizes for accepted PRs
  - PRs cannot be spammy and must be created during Hacktoberfest (October 1 - October 31)
• Why should you participate in Octoberfest? | 00:34:00
  - Open-source projects need help
  - You'll get real-world experience with git and working with others
  - Your code will be reviewed, constructive feedback
  
• How can you participate in Hacktoberfest? | 00:48:30
  - Search for the hacktoberfest tag/topic on GitHub
  - Curated lists such as this one
  - If you're a beginner there are issues marked as beginner or good first issue
  - No code contributions such as: documentation, design, blogs, videos, podcasts