How to Participate in Hacktoberfest 2021 & win LoginRadius Swags
Tags: hacktoberfest, opensource
Published: 2021-09-24 10:52:52

## What is Hacktoberfest 2021?
[Hacktoberfest 2021](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) is the 8th edition of Hacktoberfest hosted by [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/). It is an open source festival celebrated during October every year, encouraging people worldwide to actively participate and contribute to open source projects hosted across GitHub and GitLab.

In fact, Hacktoberfest 2020 had attracted 169,886 participants and 116,361 participating open source repositories, representing 135 countries.

You can simply [register yourself here](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) and start contributing to any participating open source project from Oct 01 - Oct 31. And if you meet the [contribution criteria](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/resources/participation) set by DigitalOcean, you’ll receive a Hacktoberfest t-shirt from DigitalOcean!

Additionally, if you make successful contributions to [LoginRadius open source projects](https://github.com/LoginRadius), you’ll separately receive a LoginRadius branded Hacktoberfest t-shirt from us, recognizing and thanking you for your valuable contributions.

## How to Contribute?
The exciting part about being involved in the open source community is that no matter how small or big your contributions are, the community will welcome your efforts and collaborate with you positively, sharing feedback and expressing gratitude.

Especially with [LoginRadius open source projects](https://github.com/LoginRadius), your contributions can make a big difference! We also try making your collaboration with us more enjoyable.

### Repositories for Contributing
You can also easily find issues with the **hacktoberfest** label in order to know which repositories are seeking contributions. Or, you can simply [click here](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/search?q%3Dorg%253ALoginRadius%2Blabel%253Ahacktoberfest%2Btype%253Aissue&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1632394834688000&usg=AOvVaw0wYGvdlJspvM887yP750Ms) to find all the issues needing contribution.

That all being out of the way, here are the open source projects for which we’re seeking your valuable contributions:

- [LoginRadius CLI](https://github.com/LoginRadius/lr-cli)

- [Async Blog](https://github.com/LoginRadius/engineering-portal)

- [LoginRadius Docs](https://github.com/LoginRadius/docs)

- [IDX Auto Tester](https://github.com/LoginRadius/idx-auto-tester)

- [Awesome Test Cases Collection](https://github.com/LoginRadius/awesome-test-cases-collection)

- [Go SAML](https://github.com/LoginRadius/go-saml)

- [Business Email Validator](https://github.com/LoginRadius/business-email-validator)

- [Egnature](https://github.com/LoginRadius/egnature)

- [PS Softlist](https://github.com/LoginRadius/ps-softlist)

Please note that each project will have specific guidelines on how to contribute in general and raise pull requests. Also, each project will have issues listed that you can pick and work on.

## Win Swag
By actively participating in Hacktoberfest, you make the open source community more sustainable, and, in turn, this makes you feel at home. Empowering one another is what best depicts the open source philosophy and is a reward in itself.

Visit [our article](https://www.loginradius.com/blog/async/hacktoberfest-2021/) and fill the form from there to get more details about swags.

Let’s have fun with Hacktoberfest 2021!