Does your city have a Fest? No stage, budget, or committee needed. Just a room and people who want to build. Stickers, swag, funding, and support are on us. Sign up to host a fest: https://hacktoberfest.com
Hacktoberfest
Software Development
The official account for Hacktoberfest powered by Major League Hacking and DEV. Presented by DigitalOcean.
About us
Hacktoberfest is back for its 13th year, now run by Major League Hacking and DEV. We're not counting PRs anymore: this October is all about building with open-source AI: agents, open-weight models, your first skills.md, or wherever your curiosity takes you. Join one of 300+ in-person Fests worldwide or the global online event. Learn more at hacktoberfest.com.
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https://hacktoberfest.com
External link for Hacktoberfest
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- Software Development
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- 1 employee
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- Public Company
- Founded
- 2014
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It's officially Preptember! 🎃 We're spending the month getting ready for Hacktoberfest and we're looking for hosts all around the world. Meetup group, uni club, or some coworkers with a conference room? That's enough. https://lnkd.in/ePtNFTkg
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We're back for Hacktoberfest 2026! This year, we're not counting PRs. Instead, we’re hosting 300+ in-person “Fests” and an online event all about building with open-source and open-weight AI. Learn more and see how you can get involved. https://hacktoberfest.com
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All good hacks must come to an end. 👾 https://do.co/47vXCZB Join us as we wrap-up #Hacktoberfest2025 with stories from contributors, highlights from this year’s projects, fun contests, & a final chance to win swag.
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Saved the best for last. 👾 20 teams joined our Karachi Hackathon for technical sessions on the latest in #AI & to hack some amazing #OpenSource projects using the DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Agentic Cloud. Thank you to everyone who participated & our sponsor Cloudways!
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Hacktoberfest 2025 Community Meetup -- Kolkata, India 🌍 Celebrating a month-long journey with DigitalOcean's #Hacktoberfest and Tree-Nation 🪴🌱, we were thrilled to welcome over 200 open-source enthusiasts from across Kolkata to JIS University for our "Hacktoberfest Meetup 2025." This event was made possible through a partnership with GitHub and GDG JIS University, and with generous sponsorship from Pollinations.AI & @Myceli AI ✨. The event was enriched by our amazing speakers 🎤: Saugata Sarkar: Delivered an electrifying presentation that rocked the stage! Nazreen Imam (GDG GNIT Campus Organiser): Gave a super-awesome address to the crowd. Samrat Talukdar (GDG NiT Campus Organiser): You were absolutely fantastic! A special mention goes to Thomas H., who joined us on FaceTime all the way from Berlin, Germany! absolute showstopper🔥. Lovely to have you man ⭐. This event couldn't have happened without Abhishek Kushwaha. Lovely to have you bhaiya ⭐. Huge thanks to Luma for hosting the event and @Myceli for sponsoring us ✨. Thank you to Deep Saha, Abiroy Karmakar, Sagnik Roy, Sourav Singh, Amit paul, Debankur Dutta and Tamajit Pal for being so active and engaged. A super thanks to Anwesha Chakraborty and organiser bhaiya Ayushman Bhattacharya for being our ultimate support ✨. We are so grateful to Prof. Sandip Roy and Suprativ Saha for their guidance and help 💕. It was also lovely having our former GDG Design Lead, Shemanti Pal, on-board with us! This was a truly wonderful event. Hoping to push forward more of this in the upcoming months with all of you 💕. #Hacktoberfest #Hacktoberfest2025 #GDG #GitHub #OpenSource #Kolkata #Pollinations #DigitalOcean #Community
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October is almost over, but there's still time to join the #OpenSource community. 🧑💻👾 Register here & start pulling. 🔗 https://do.co/3FfBxV4
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Builders from across the San Francisco Bay Area gathered for a hands-on hackathon exploring Open Source Meets AI. 🌁👨💻👩💻🚀 Special thanks to Major League Hacking, Auth0, and Pythagora for making it a day full of innovation, learning, and AI-powered creation. ✨
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Hacktoberfest meets Hyderabad. 👾🤝🇮🇳 Huge thank you to Harness, LitmusChaos, & everyone who came to build with us. We're just getting started!
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Big thank you everyone who joined us in Pune! From beginners to experienced contributors, you made it special. ✨ Special shoutout to Shrawan Saproo + Rohan Khamkar + NIKHIL P. for helping us put together an amazing hackathon. 🌊👏
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