Hacktoberfest Has Finished. Thanks to All Those Who Took Part!
Tags: hacktoberfest, opensource, meta
Published: 2019-11-01 18:01:37

Another great Hacktoberfest is concluded. Jump to [the bottom of this post](#badges-coming) for **important info about profile badges**.

This was the first time that DEV got to be co-presenters of the event. It was great to work with [DigitalOcean](/digitalocean) to make the event as inclusive and community-oriented as possible.

Contributing to open source is a tremendous chance to learn, meet new people and challenge one's self. It's also such an important part of maintaining accessibility to the most powerful software in the world. We sometimes take for granted that _anyone_ can use some of the most remarkable software ever created. This was not always the case, and might not always be the case if we don't sustain this environment.

Open source is only possible because we get together and do it. No technology endeavor is a universal good, but open source is an area where a lot of good can happen if the right people get involved. We're so happy to pushing the best parts of open source.

This Hacktoberfest, the DEV repo saw **500 pull requests opened** in the month. We **merged 276 of them**, and continue to work through a backlog of non-merged pull requests. Of course, some were closed along the way for one reason or another and those PRs were still very much appreciated.

The DEV Team will be publishing an update on our roadmap towards providing this platform as re-usable community-building software which we hope will eventually empower thousands of positive, constructive communities across the web.

Straightforward pull requests like this one march us towards the goal...

{% github https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/pull/4665 %}

Thanks to @nadiyaka for making that happen.

Another small pull request I really liked was this one which adds a custom focus outline to the site's main search bar, which improves accessibility and design. Only a couple new lines of code and we have brand new functionality.

{% github https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/pull/4668 %}

Thanks to @emi_codes for that one.

Of course, these are only a couple of the 276 merged pull requests this month, but we have plenty more to do.

One new issue ripe for many contributions is this project from our team member @molly_struve.

{% github https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/issues/4670 %}

If you are looking for more ways to contribute to DEV, that one has lots of surface area.

## **Badges Coming**

![Hacktoberfest Badge](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/av8jtilpew7mhr0kycb6.png)

Participation in Hacktoberfest 2019 will result in DEV profile badges! These will ship as soon as the waiting period for pull request validation is over in a few days. If you authenticated to DEV via Twitter, **you need to add GitHub authentication as well [in your settings](https://dev.to/settings)** in order to get credit for your participation.

**I repeat: You need to add GitHub authentication to your profile [in your settings](https://dev.to/settings) in order to get your participation badge.**

Of course, if you participated in Hacktoberfest and are not yet a registered DEV member, sign up with GitHub authentication. 😄

Happy coding!