It's that time of year! Hacktoberfest is back!
CALLING ALL SERVICENOW DEVELOPERS COMMUNITY
It's the 8th year that the ServiceNow community has participated in DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest. That's 8 years of open-sourced, collaborative ServiceNow-specific projects!
"All community, not just developers." This year, one of our new projects (the Prompt Library) is asking for contributions from all walks of ServiceNow life, regardless of if you're a developer, admin, analyst, end-user, etc.
Every year we set records! Last year in 2023, we had 727 Pull Requests (a 40% increase from 2022) by 328 Participants (a 63% increase from 2022). Can we break those records again?
Hacktoberfest is an annual, month-long celebration of open-source software run by DigitalOcean in partnership with GitHub and other sponsors, typically held in October, where participants contribute to open-source projects to earn rewards. The event encourages participation in the open-source community, all the while earning prizes for participation.
Need some motivation? Watch this 2 minute video from ServiceNow MVP, Laszlo Balla:
During the entire month of October (as in, October 1 to October 31), you can choose from any number of our projects below to "complete" hacktoberfest and earn your rewards.
Watch this short three-minute video to see one of the ways to participate from A to Z:
Git 101
But what do all those terms means??? I'm here to learn too!
Imagine you're part of a team of writers creating a big adventure storybook together. To make sure everyone can add their own chapters without mixing things up or overwriting each other's work, you follow a special process.
Fork (Making Your Own Copy of the Storybook):
First, you make your own photocopy of the main storybook so you can write your chapters without changing the original. This is like forking a repository in Git—creating your own copy of the project to work on independently.
Branch (Starting a New Chapter):
You decide to write a new chapter about a dragon adventure. To keep it organized, you start a new notebook just for this chapter. This is like creating a feature branch—a separate path where you can develop new ideas without affecting the main story.
Commit (Saving Your Drafts):
As you write, you finish a few pages and think, "This is good so far!" So, you save that version by putting a bookmark in it. This is like making a commit—you're saving snapshots of your work at various stages so you can go back if needed.
Pull Request (Sharing Your Chapter with the Team):
Once your chapter is complete, you go to the team and say, "Hey, I've written this dragon adventure chapter. Can we add it to the main storybook?" This is creating a pull request—you're requesting that your changes be reviewed and merged into the main project.
Push (Adding Your Chapter to the Main Storybook):
The team reads your chapter and loves it! They decide to include it in the main storybook. So, they carefully copy your chapter into the original book. This is like pushing your changes into the main repository—the final step where your work becomes part of the shared project.
From DigitalOcean:
- Evolving Digital Badge. A customizable digital badge from Holopin that gains new characteristics with each of your pull/merge requests. You'll be able to display your achievements on your GitHub or GitLab profile
- Here's Earl's
- Here's Earl's
From ServiceNow Community
- Community Badge. A Community Badge for anyone who "completes" Hacktoberfest (4 accepted Pull Requests to eligible projects)
- ServiceNow Merch. Top contributors, high quality contributors, early contributors, and a random selection of contributors will be given codes to the ServiceNow store to redeem ServiceNow merch (while supplies last)
- Bragging rights! The main ServiceNow Hacktoberfest repo (https://github.com/ServiceNowDevProgram/Hacktoberfest) has a leaderboard to track all of our top contributors for this year and all-time.
Prize offerings and conditions to qualify are subject to change.
This event is now closed and new submissions are not being reviewed.
To be eligible for the ServiceNow Community badge and the ServiceNow Merch codes:
When you "complete" Hacktoberfest (4 accepted Pull Requests to approved projects), submit a short (300-words or fewer) description, a short video, or an infographic that explains what your pull requests contributed and your experience on this open-source journey. Be sure to share it both in the comments of this blog and on social media using the hashtag #ServiceNowHacktoberfest
For example:
You will be contacted regarding your prizes after the end of October.
Every year our goal is to make it easy for you to participate, so the more projects the better! We have also worked on enhancing some repos so that it’s easier and faster to contribute without having to fully pull down entire applications into your Personal Developer Instance.
All project links can be found in our main Hacktoberfest repository here: https://github.com/ServiceNowDevProgram/Hacktoberfest
Not sure where to start? Here are some recommendations:
- Get a Leaderboard point just for forking repos! Go to the main repository and hit fork and you'll be added to this year's leaderboard automatically. In fact, you get a point for every repo you fork! 👀
- ServiceNow Gen AI Prompt Library - New this year, you can contribute to the prompt library without ever leaving GitHub (no need to install the app on an instance)
- Code-snippets - Our most popular project every year, you can contribute to this repo without ever leaving GitHub (no app to install)
- Plants - Adding a record to a table is enough to contribute to this project
- Slacker Bot - Show off your JavaScript skills and add a parser to the live bot without ever leaving GitHub (no need to install the app on an instance)
YOUR HACKTOBERFEST 2024 CREW
A team of volunteers are ready this year to ensure that your Hacktoberfest experience is better than ever! ServiceNow’s participation in Hacktoberfest is only possible because volunteers put in the massive hours to make sure Pull Requests are being reviewed and everything is running smoothly.
Every reviewer/maintainer hangs out on the SNDevs workspace chat. You can join via this link (https://invite.sndevs.com/) and then find us on the #hacktoberfest channel.
MORE TO COME
This blog post (https://devlink.sn/hacktoberfest) is the home for all things ServiceNow Hacktoberfest! This page will be updated as more information becomes available.
What are you waiting for? Jump right into https://github.com/ServiceNowDevProgram/Hacktoberfest to get started!
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