This was a lot of fun last year, plus free swag for helping an open source project!
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 16:07 Oleg Nenashev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Hacktoberfest 2019 has been announced today: > https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/ . It is a one-month global event > where people contribute to open-source in order to get some Swag. The event > is mostly online, but there are also some meetups being organized by > communities. Jenkins has been participating in recent years (e.g. the 2018 > blogpost <https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/10/01/hacktoberfest/>), and we > have got a a good number of contributions from it. > > There is nothing needed to participate in Hacktoberfest, per se. We can > just wait for contributions, and some will come. But we could also prepare > better to it and generate some buzz to get more external contributions. I > would like to do it this year again. > > Where do we need help: > > - *Contributors *- Consider participating in Hacktoberfest this year, > and help us to spread the word in social media once announcements go live > ;) We will also appreciate if somebody is willing to join the Code > Reviewers <https://github.com/orgs/jenkinsci/teams/code-reviewers> > team to help with the increased number of pull requests related to > Hacktoberfest > - *Maintainers - Propose your plugins/projects *to be highlighted in > our announcements (e.g. see > https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/10/01/hacktoberfest/#projects). We look > for projects with active reviewers, newbie-friendly tickets, and clear > contributing guidelines. It can be basically any Jenkins-related project, > even if it is not located within Jenkins GitHub organizations > - *Maintainers - update lists of newbie-friendly tickets*. For > Hacktoberfest it is common to offer real small tasks, and tasks which take > 1..4 hours. If such tasks are well defined, it increases their chances of > being implemented by a contributor > - *Meetup organizers - consider hosting a hackathon in October*. It > can be a Jenkins Area meetup or meetup in another group with some > Jenkins/Jenkins X topics in the agenda. There is a Hacktoberfest > Event Kit <https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/eventkit> for > organizers, and we will also try to help from the Jenkins side. Please use > the Advocacy&Outreach SIG chat or mailing list > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/jenkins-advocacy-and-outreach-sig> > if you need help > > If you have any questions, please reply to the thread or join the Jenkins > Hacktoberfest <https://gitter.im/jenkinsci/hacktoberfest> Gitter channel. > And please feel free to propose your projects below. E.g., I nominate the > Jenkins Core, and the Configuration-as-Code plugin :) > > Best regards, > Oleg Nenashev > Advocacy & Outreach SIG > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAPfivLA9Tmb_XTdJyr-Qi2mNwR9Y3_0oYppeyQZz18a98ybA1A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAPfivLA9Tmb_XTdJyr-Qi2mNwR9Y3_0oYppeyQZz18a98ybA1A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAPiUgVcU%2BP_ocDxSCV-w6HJFdV8yxHWFMX3_dOULWUix8ONGGw%40mail.gmail.com.
