Hacktoberfest 2024: Celebrating Open Source and Community Impact with Interledger

As Hacktoberfest 2024 wraps up, we’re thrilled to share our open-source community's incredible contributions and community engagement!

Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of Open Source that encourages people to contribute to open source throughout October. This year marked the 11th edition of Hacktoberfest and the third edition of the Interledger Foundation participating in this event..

This year's Hacktoberfest has been a vibrant celebration of collaborative impact. We witnessed new contributions and increased support with new stars on our repositories from seasoned open-source contributors and enthusiastic newcomers. We also partnered with a few open-source and tech communities, that organized local or online events. In this way, we were actively engaging with several open-source enthusiasts.

Community Events:
Throughout October, the Interledger Foundation hosted and participated in meaningful events that brought together developers, and open-source enthusiasts to share knowledge, collaborate, and learn. Here’s a recap of the key highlights:

• On 11th October, Chimoney x ILF, our colleague Sarah delivered an engaging session on Open Payments, delving into interoperability and financial inclusion. You can follow the recording of the session here.
• On 13th October - we partnered with Open Source Weekend community for their Open Source Weekend in Gujarat: With over 300 attendees, this event was a major highlight, fostering discussions on open-source innovation and digital financial inclusion.
• On 26th October, while we were in Cape Town for our summit, CodeWave Hub HacktoberFest 2024 [CodeFest] took place. This was a great wrap-up event to celebrate open-source contributions and encourage new developers to get involved.

GitHub Contributions:
As we are open-source we invited contributors to work on several projects that we have here at Interledger, including Rafiki, Testnet, Web Montization, Open Payments, and Helm Charts. You can track the contributions via these links:

Rafiki:
https://github.com/interledger/rafiki/pull/3028
https://github.com/interledger/rafiki/pull/2935

Testnet:
https://github.com/interledger/testnet/pull/1725
https://github.com/interledger/testnet/pull/1717

Helm-charts:
https://github.com/interledger/helm-charts/pull/45
https://github.com/interledger/helm-charts/pull/44

Join Us in Shaping the Future of Open Payments
Over the last month, our repositories received 135 new stars collectively across six key projects. As we look forward to the year ahead, we’d love your continued support in shaping the future of Open Payments.

Please take a moment to invite your community to get involved with the Interledger project on GitHub! Showing support is as easy as 1-2-3:

1. Log in to your GitHub.
2. Explore Interledger's repositories: Interledger GitHub
3. Star ⭐ Interledger projects to show your support!

As we foster innovation and welcome contributions to our open-source work, we want to encourage you to keep the spirit of Hacktoberfest alive all year long, not only in October. If you feel intimidated by GitHub, you can join our Slack and ask for more details. We also publish a newsletter once a month, which you can subscribe to here.

Thank you once again for being a part of Interledger Hacktoberfest 2024!