Happy October 2nd! Hacktoberfest started yesterday, which means developers all over the world will begin diving headfirst into the world of F.O.S.S., pushing PRs to solve open issues across all shapes and sizes of GitHub projects. For the first time ever, the Stellar Development Foundation will be an active participant, helping YOU secure one of those spiffy, limited edition Hacktoberfest t-shirts (see more here).

What is Hacktoberfest?

Hacktoberfest is an annual, month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean and DEV, where developers of all skill levels can win one of 50,000 limited edition t-shirts by making four legitimate, non-spammy PRs to ANY (well ok, not literally any, but almost every) open source project on GitHub. While any PR counts, organizations, such as the Stellar Development Foundation, will label specific issues with the Hacktoberfest label, meaning an issue is new contributor friendly.

SDF & Hacktoberfest

To start, the Stellar Development Foundation has labeled several issues from our Go Monorepo and the Kelp repo as Hacktoberfest worthy issues. These issues are generally isolated, simple, and manageable for the beginner to novice Go developer. If Go is not your thing no worries, we have opened a few issues in the Laboratory as well — more issues will be available soon!

See all Go Monorepo Hacktoberfest Issues Here.

See all Kelp Hacktoberfest Issues Here.