Percona is in Hacktoberfest 2022!
Published: 2022-09-27 15:54:15

Do you know that Percona will be at Hacktoberfest?
Yes! Yes! It will be present! 🎉😃

[Percona](www.percona.com) is a specialized open source database company, It developed a series of open source software projects for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

This year for the first time, **Percona** participates in [Hacktoerfest](https://hacktoberfest.com/) 🎉. Hacktoerfest is a month-long celebration of open source projects organized for [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/) that encourages people to contribute to open source during **October**.


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We invite you to participate in Hacktoberfest. You can start contributing by following the steps below:

1. Register on the [**Hacktoberfest website**](https://hacktoberfest.com/) anytime between **September 26 and October 31** 📆.

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2. Look through our projects on [**GitHub** and **Jira**](https://github.com/search?q=org%3Apercona+topic%3Ahacktoberfest) and choose your favorites.

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- On GitHub look for the tag ["good-first-issue"](https://github.com/search?q=org%3Apercona+topic%3Ahacktoberfest+is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Agood-first-issue%2C%22good+first+issue%22&type=Issues)


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- On Jira look for the tag "**[newbie](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPXC-955?jql=status%20in%20(Open%2C%20New)%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20newbie)**", "**hacktoberfest**", and "**[onboarding](https://jira.percona.com/browse/PMM-10478?jql=resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20description%20is%20not%20EMPTY%20AND%20project%20%3D%20%22Percona%20Monitoring%20and%20Management%22%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20onboarding%20ORDER%20BY%20created%20DESC)**"

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3. Contribute to the code with **PR/MRs** during the period from **October 1 to October 31** 📅. You should have **_at least four pull/merge requests accepted_** that meet the [Hacktoberfest requirements](https://hacktoberfest.com/participation/#pr-mr-details), and get your prizes! 


4. In addition to the official Hacktoberfest prizes, you can receive surprise swag from Percona.



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**Note** 📝: Don't forget we also have non-code contribution, get more information in **[Low or Non Code Contributions](https://hacktoberfest.com/about/#low-or-non-code)**.

If you want to know more about how to start trading on Percona, we are holding a monthly meeting with the leaders of each Percona project that will participate in Hacktoerfest. Do not miss this [event](https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:6979017359084683264/) this **Wednesday 28th**.

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We also have a [**Discord**](https://discord.gg/D92U5cnzg4) channel for Hacktoberfest supporters, feel free to drop us a line.

See you soon!

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