For the second year in a row now I have participated in Hacktoberfest, an open-source initiative by DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider. What's the deal? You, fellow open-source contributor, just have to open a handful of pull-request during the timeframe of October 1st to 31st. DigitalOcean will be generous and send you a limited edition t-shirt for free (well, for your time spent on those 5 pull-requests that is). Here's the two shirts I got for my 2016 and 2017 efforts:

Hacktoberfest swaaaag. Open-Source for life. Thanks @DigitalOcean! #Hacktoberfest #opensource pic.twitter.com/2zXdxElrCj

— Hannes Käufler (@hanneskaeufler) 19. Dezember 2017

Needless to say, I find that an awesome initiative, seeing that the world builds upon open-source software. The five pull-requests that got me my t-shirt this year were:

• Increase test coverage on administrate
• Improve german translation on administrate
• Add unit tests for previously uncovered code in a laravel caching lib
• Improve modularity of code in solar-system game
• Add hover effect in play button

To finish this off I can't recommend participating in Hacktoberfest enough, and thanks to DigitalOcean to appreciate this by giving you a t-shirt.