Digital Espresso Hacktoberfest 2022 Roundup

November 3, 2022

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One other Hacktoberfest has come and gone!

This was Digital Espresso’s third Hacktoberfest (🤯) and it was one other nice one! Our members knocked it out of the park as common, and we needed to take a second to have a good time!

Our Digital Espresso Hacktoberfest Initiative (VCHI) is an annual occasion the place our members come collectively to assist one another contribute to Open Supply and hopefully full Digital Ocean’s Hacktoberfest Problem. A few of our members are maintainers of their very own repos, some join as mentors for members who’re new to open supply, and a few join simply to get Hacktoberfesting (or Hacktoberfestering when you’re Dan)!

This yr we had an superior crew of volunteers serving to the maintainers out operating issues – so a really particular ✨ thanks ✨ to Dominic Duffin, Enrico La Cava, Joe Karow, Lucia Cerchie, Nick Taylor.

We kicked off the month with three nice Hacktoberfest/Open Supply movies and a podcast episode with our maintainers:

We had 56 members join as contributors, repository maintainers, and mentors. Listed here are some cool stats and shoutouts from VCHI 2022:

Mentors:

Our mentors are one of many largest elements of what we do at VC for Hacktoberfest. They every have a number of mentees and spend the month serving to individuals begin their open supply journey.

✨ Thanks ✨ to our superb mentors:

Adam Abundis
Alex Curtis-Slep
Amy Shackles
BekahHW
Brian Meeker
Dan Ott
David Alpert
Joern Bernhardt
Kirk Shillingford
Meg Gutshall
Nick Taylor
Raynald Mirville
Skyler Murray

Maintainers:

A few of our members signed up as open supply maintainers – these members (and all the Hacktoberfest maintainers) spend numerous time on their tasks behind the scenes, making ready their repositories and serving to contributors achieve success. For the 8 repos our collaborating members are sustaining, they merged 642 pull requests from 262 distinctive contributors 🤯🤯🤯.

✨ Thanks ✨ to our superior maintainers:

VirtualCoffee.io:

Yearly for Hacktoberfest, we put together a particular concern that members can contribute to to get them began in direction of Hacktoberfest. We additionally attempt to create quite a lot of different points like new options, bug fixes, and common enhancements all through the month.

On the VirtualCoffee.io repo within the month of October: 32 members made 65 pull requests: 34 of which have been member profile additions/updates, whereas 31 have been new options or different enhancements to the location.

Superb!

Contributions:

Of the 52 members that signed up, 36 members had a minimum of one accepted pull request in a repository collaborating in Hacktoberfest, and we collectively created 132 pull requests throughout 31 repositories within the month of October.

That is unbelievable. We’re so pleased with everybody who contributed, whether or not that is their first time in open supply or they have been holding all their squares inexperienced for years.

We have been in a position to tally up everybody’s contributions – listed here are all the Hacktoberfest pull requests that our members made this month:

Whole pull requests: 1
Whole modified recordsdata: 2
Whole additions: 23
Whole deletions: 0
Distinctive repos: 1
nickytonline/connect-four