What is Hacktoberfest?
Hacktoberfest is DigitalOcean’s annual event that encourages people to contribute to open source throughout October. Umbraco has joined in on the Hacktoberfest fun for the last 8 years (with our own addition to the Digital Ocean rewards) because your input and contributions help shape the Umbraco CMS, documentation, and our other projects - in fact, we rely quite heavily on them!
What’s Happening This Year?
For 2024, we’re excited to ramp up the fun and creativity with even more opportunities to contribute to the Umbraco ecosystem. From October 1st to October 31st, we’ll be celebrating all things open source, and we want YOU to be a part of it!
The rules
We expect you to stick to the same rules that Digital Ocean sets and provide high-quality contributions during the month of October.
However, to “complete” Umbraco’s Hacktoberfest you only need to provide 2 accepted contributions and then you’re in!
What’s New this year?
We just released the Umbraco 15 release candidate and we would love to hear how it works for you. Head over to the Hacktoberfest Activity Log to tell us your findings, which will count as one contribution.
If you get your 2 contributions accepted, you’re automatically entered into a raffle to get a free official Umbraco training of your choice. We’ll raffle off training to five lucky, randomly selected, participants. As always, you can also apply for swag or donation of trees - more on that in a bit.
Events
October 3 - In person
In-person: The US Community Hackathon in Charlotte, NC. This hackathon is the lead-up to the Umbraco US Festival.
October 3 - Online📹📺
UmbracoCollab - Hacktoberfest drop-in
It's not just Hacktoberfest, the Umbraco US Festival hackathon is also happening! Members from Umbraco HQ and the Core Collaborators team will be available to answer questions, provide help getting you up and running, and guiding your contributions. There's no agenda, just drop in if you want to chat about Hacktoberfest contributions.
October 11 & 12 - Online🧑💻
The Umbraco x Candid Contributions Hacktoberfest Hackathon: This online hackathon will be a relaxed environment for people to share ideas, seek inspiration, get guidance, find collaborators, or just have some company whilst hacking away.