Kick-off with Minsk Python Meetup, 2024

After a couple of quieter years on the community calendar, Hacktoberfest returned to our Initiatives list with an MLH-listed online kick-off on the first evening of October — a chance to prepare together, contribute to open-source projects, and collaborate with like-minded people.

• When: Tuesday, 1 October 2024, 19:30–21:30 UTC+3
• Format: online
• Listed with: MLH
• Audience: professionals, students, ages 13+

What we covered

The session was practical and contributor-focused. The published agenda highlighted three themes:

• how to get started with Hacktoberfest;
• tips for contributing to Python-related open-source projects;
• best practices for submitting quality pull requests.

In other words: less ceremony, more “how do I find a good issue and open a PR maintainers will actually want.”

That year’s challenge

Hacktoberfest 2024 kept the quality-first model that emerged after 2020. Participants registered on the official site, then aimed for four high-quality pull or merge requests between 1 and 31 October on GitHub or GitLab projects that had opted in (typically via the hacktoberfest topic). Maintainers had to accept those contributions for them to count. Registration unlocked a digital Holopin badge featuring mascot Sloan the Sloth, which leveled up as PRs were accepted.

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