Hacktoberfest 2021

[Nia McCash]

What is Hacktoberfest?

Hacktoberfest is a month-long event sponsored by Digital Ocean aimed at promoting developer participation with open source. Submit four quality pull requests to participating repositories to earn a limited edition T-Shirt

Here are some highlights from the Hacktoberfest 2021 blog post on the Developer site ...

ServiceNow is open source?

Not quite but you can still participate by doing ServiceNow development. There are definitely ways that you can contribute to the ServiceNow community, and your contribution may even make it to official product documentation:

Your code snippets have the possibility of being published in ServiceNow docs.

Why participate?

• For the fun and the learning opportunities

As we transition managing development on ServiceNow away from using update sets towards using source control integration with git, it’s becoming more important for ServiceNow developers to have an understanding of how version control software like GitHub works.

• To up your ServiceNow knowledge and reputation - perhaps you're aiming to become a Developer MVP next year

Contributors will earn points toward qualifying for next year’s Developer MVP program.

• For the swag - earn that limited edition free T-shirt

More details are available on the Hacktoberfest 2021 blog post on the Developer site and listen to the Breakpoint podcast episode.