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+layout: post
+title: "Participating in Hacktoberfest"
+description: "Home Assistant will be participating in Hacktoberfest to help people to get started with open-source."
+date: 2016-10-02 00:04:05 +0000
+date_formatted: "October 2, 2016"
+author: Paulus Schoutsen
+author_twitter: balloob
+comments: true
+categories: Community
+---
+
+Home Assistant will join this year for [Hacktoberfest], an event organised by DigitalOcean and GitHub to support and celebrate open source. The idea is that open source projects like Home Assistant will gather a bunch of entry-level bugs, features and documentation enhancements and that you, a current or future contributor, will fix them. If you submit four pull-requests during the month of October you will have earned yourself a limited edition Hacktoberfest T-shirt!
+
+Why contribute to Home Assistant:
+
+ - Written in Python3 with 94% test coverage
+ - Active and helpful community
+ - Friendly to new contributors
+
+Resources to get started:
+
+ - [List of entry-level issues for Home Assistant][issues]
+ - [Instructions to setup your development environment][dev-env]
+ - [Home Assistant Development Chat][dev-chat]
+ - [Home Assistant Development Forums][dev-forum]
+ - [Hacktoberfest website][Hacktoberfest]
+
+[![Hacktober fest logo][logo]][Hacktoberfest]
+
+[logo]: /images/blog/2016-10-hacktoberfest/hacktoberfest.png
+[Hacktoberfest]: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
+[issues]: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3AHacktoberfest
+[dev-env]: /developers/development_environment/
+[dev-chat]: https://gitter.im/home-assistant/home-assistant/devs
+[dev-forum]: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/development
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