Hacktoberfest: A month-long celebration of open source software

Re:Hacktoberfest: A month-long celebration of open source so... by mynewtb on Thursday September 28, 2017 @11:42AM (#15357957)

Forcing this to be an GitHub-exclusive event is a massive shame. I wonder why they have such restriction instead of promoting to contribute to any FOSS, anywhere.

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Re:Hacktoberfest: A month-long celebration of open source so... by talklittle on Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:24PM (#15360416)

For one, GitHub and DigitalOcean both had Series A investments led by the same partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digitalocean/investo...

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/github/investors

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Re:Hacktoberfest: A month-long celebration of open source so... by libc on Thursday September 28, 2017 @11:51AM (#15358058)

How would they track pull requests? I agree that it would be nice if it wasn't just restricted to github and the kinds of projects most likely to be hosted there, but it does simplify things on their end.

I do wish they had a way to prevent people from gaming it with fake projects just to get a free T-shirt, especially when there still seem to be others that never receive one. It also just goes against the spirit of the event.

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Re:Hacktoberfest: A month-long celebration of open source so... by tomschlick on Thursday September 28, 2017 @11:52AM (#15358070)

Probably because github is a big sponsor and the host of 95% of the OSS work in the past 10 years.

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