Since 2016, I curate a list of brazilian-maintained projects people can contribute to during hacktoberfest. The goal is to facilitate contributions fr

Reflections from a maintainer and contributor during Hacktoberfest - is open source struggling?

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Since 2016, I curate a list of brazilian-maintained projects people can contribute to during hacktoberfest. The goal is to facilitate contributions from the brazilian dev community and also lower the entry barrier to the first open source contribution from Brazilians that might not speak english or don’t know where to start.

Contributing to open source can be a thrilling experience, opening the pull request, watch the review come through, improve what needs improving, discuss what could be discussed. I personally love all of that.

For a while now the list is maintained by the community. Folks will submit their projects for consideration and as long as they are maintained by Brazilians, valid (not archived), and have issues open, the project will be added to the list. No questions asked.

For me, hacktoberfest is only an excuse to give back to the community even if throughout the year I couldn’t do much. Unfortunately it is true, a lot of devs used to only focus on open source during hacktoberfest in order to win a shirt.