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title: "Participating in Hacktoberfest"
description: "Home Assistant will be participating in Hacktoberfest to help people to get started with open-source."
date: 2017-09-29 08:00:00 +0000
date_formatted: "September 29, 2017"
author: Fabian Affolter
author_twitter: fabaff
categories: Community
og_image: /images/blog/2017-09-hacktoberfest/hacktoberfest-2017.png
---

For the second year in a row, Home Assistant will be participating in [Hacktoberfest]. Hacktoberfest is an event organized 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 help us fix them. If you submit four pull-requests during October, you will have earned yourself a limited edition Hacktoberfest T-shirt!

Why contribute to Home Assistant?

 - Written in Python 3 with 94% test coverage
 - Active and helpful community
 - Friendly to new contributors

Resources to get started:

 - [Sign up for Hacktoberfest][Hacktoberfest-reg]
 - [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]

Are you not a programmer but still want to contribute to Home Assistant? Check out our [list of entry-level issues for the Home Assistant website][issues-doc].

Our participation for [Hacktoberfest 2016][hackt-2016] was a huge success. Join us to repeat it this year.

[![Hacktober fest logo][logo]][Hacktoberfest]

[logo]: /images/blog/2016-10-hacktoberfest/hacktoberfest.png
[Hacktoberfest]: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
[Hacktoberfest-reg]: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/profile
[issues]: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/labels/Hacktoberfest
[issues-doc]: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/labels/Hacktoberfest
[dev-env]: /developers/development_environment/
[dev-chat]: https://discord.gg/8X8DTH4
[dev-forum]: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/development
[hackt-2016]: /blog/2016/11/05/hacktoberfest-influxdb-weather/#hacktoberfest