Maintainer’s Guide to Hackfests

A Uvikon 860 spectrophotometer with the words "Maintainer's Guide to Hackfests" version 1.0 presented by Duck Alignment Academy.

I just published the first version of the Maintainer’s Guide to Hackfests. It’s intended to be a short, practical guide for getting the most out of participating in a hackfest. As my luck would have it, this year’s Hacktoberfest — the event that inspired me to write the guide in the first place — will be completely different from years past. But there are other hackfest events out there that you might want to participate in.

From being clear about why you’re participating, to getting policies and configuration in place, the Maintainer’s Guide to Hackfests condenses all of my experience in 16 short pages. If you find it useful, or if you find something confusing, missing, or flat out wrong, you can contribute. Or just start reading from the links below.

This post’s featured image from Control by Tristan Ferne, used under CC BY 2.0. Edited by Ben Cotton.

Ben is the Open Source Community Lead at Kusari. He formerly led open source messaging at Docker and was the Fedora Program Manager for five years. Ben is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Ben is an OpenSSF Ambassador and frequent conference speaker. His personal website is Funnel Fiasco.

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