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Virtual Coffee: Hacktoberfest Initiative

This challenge is always run during October and was our first-ever monthly challenge. We have three tracks: maintainers will provide issues labeled for Hacktoberfest, contributors will solve issues, and mentors will help contributors and maintainers be successful.

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Read our Monthly Challenge Facilitators Handbook to learn how to handle tasks before and after challenges, as well as the technical guidelines.

Special Tasks​

The special task for this challenge is to prepare the Virtual Coffee: Hacktoberfest Initiative website for participants to sign up as maintainers, contributors, or mentors.

This task is typically handled by our Technology Support Maintainer, Dan Ott.

Todo​

Two weeks before the challenge, remind the maintainer to prepare the Virtual Coffee: Hacktoberfest Initiative website.

Async Check-Ins Time​

Mondays, 8:00 AM ET

Prompts​

Below are previous prompts for our kick-off announcements and async check-ins.

Kick-Off Announcement 2024​

It’s now October and that means it is time for a new Monthly Challenge. The Virtual Coffee Hacktobefest Initiative 2024 is starting now! 🎃

This challenge is always run during October and was our first-ever monthly challenge. We have three tracks: maintainers will provide issues labeled for Hacktoberfest, contributors will solve issues, and mentors will help contributors and maintainers be successful.

This month’s challenge will take place in #hacktoberfest. Watch out for updates in that channel! #open-source is also available for general open source chat including Hacktoberfest related stuff.

You can check out the full challenge details [here](https://virtualcoffee.io/monthlychallenges/oct-2024).

Check out the recordings of our open source Lunch and Learns from September: [Intro to OSS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoVX3kGMn3c) & [Becoming a Maintainer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-wrAFiBqFI).

And, last but not least, don't miss our Hacktoberfest Kickoff tomorrow at 12:00 ET!

Kick-Off Announcement 2023​

  • Kick-off announcement

    We’re kicking off Hacktoberfest in style, starting today! Check out what we have happening:

    - Our HACKTOBERFEST KICKOFF is happening on Monday at 1 PM EDT. We'll be talking open source, and doing a walkthrough of an issue that everyone can contribute to! Complete your first PR of the month together with everyone and hit the ground running!
    - Our podcast episodes are all open source and Hacktoberfest themed this season, so check those out too!

  • Preptember repo opens during Hacktoberfest

    🥁🥁🥁

    We are delighted to share that our Preptember repo is still open for our members until the end of Hacktoberfest! 🎉

    📢 Please note that this repo is **not** participating in Hacktoberfest and we only accept PRs from our existing members.

    If you want to practice open source or are a maintainer and want to list your repo(s) in our recommended repos for Hacktoberfest, you can still do so until Oct 31!

    We also encourage our mentors to use this repo to practice open source for their mentees! 🙌

Async Check-Ins 2024​

  • Week 1-3

    Hi friends! Let’s do an async check-in!

    Who’s looking for issues? Who's got issues? Tell us what you’re looking for and we’ll try to get you paired up!

  • Week 4

    Hi friends! It's the last week of Hacktoberfest. Let’s do an async check-in!

    Who’s looking for issues? Who's got issues? Tell us what you’re looking for and we’ll try to get you paired up!

Async Check-Ins 2023​

  • Week 1-4

    Let’s do an async check-in!

    Who’s looking for issues? Tell us what you’re looking for and we’ll try to get you paired up!

Kick-Off Event 2024​

We kick-off the challenge on October 1st on Zoom, hosted by Dan and Bekah.

Slack Channels​

Slack channels that we use for the challenge:

  • #announcement
    • Kick-off announcement
  • #hacktoberfest
    • Challenge announcements
    • Async check-ins
    • Questions, help, and support
  • #help-and-pairing and #open-source
    • Questions, help, and support
  • #co-working-room
    • Sync check-ins
    • Sync help and support

Past Challenges​

Past Blog Posts​

Past Events​

Events 2024​

Events 2023​

Events 2022​