Every October, Digital Ocean runs Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of open-sourced software. Encouraging developers at all stages in their careers to participate in the open-source community. The event is open to everyone in the global community, no matter your skill level or background and it grows in size every year.

Hacktoberfest 2020 returns to ZTM with three brand new projects for you to complete the challenge and earn a limited edition T-shirt! All you have to do to take part is:

• Sign up on the Official Hacktoberfest Website
• Make 4 pull requests to ANY public repository during the month of October!
• Have fun

This year, the first 70,000 participants who successfully complete the challenge will entitled to pick a free limited edition T-shirt or plant a tree! You can find out more details about Hacktoberfest on their website, as well as track your progress throughout the month.

This event is a super popular event throughout the Zero To Mastery community, with over 800 pull requests made to the three projects available last year. With 2018 seeing a combined total of 494 Pull Requests, from over 200 collaborators! Let's smash that record this year with our massive ZTM family!

Following their success, we are excited to announce 3 brand new projects for this year's Hacktoberfest:

Your favourite annual creative challenge for Hacktoberfest is here! We will once again be showcasing the creative talents of our ZTM students, this time using the HTML element.

Using HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript, your mission is to create a work of art with the <canvas> element. It can be as simple or elaborate as you like, however please ensure that the code is your own, and not copied from other sources.

Project Repo/Instructions

Welcome to this years HTML challenge for Hacktoberfest, a project with beginners and aspiring developers in mind, utilizing HTML, CSS & maybe a dash of JavaScript to achieve a simplistic yet elegant website for the greatest start up of all time; Keiko Corp.

Bruno has put together a quick Froala mockup to demonstrate the layout and simplistic design they are looking for. Although Bruno did request the website be as immaculate and as impressive as his hair, the design is totally open to interpretation and modification during the first iteration of development.

Project Repo/Instructions

Welcome to this years Python challenge for Hacktoberfest, A project with beginners and aspiring developers in mind, utilizing Python to convert images into ASCII Art.

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters.

Let's see how we can evolve the ASCII generator with our ZTM community help!! Maybe we want to display this on an HTML web page where users can submit images and we convert it to ASCII art? Maybe we want to improve how the Command Line Tool works/make it more customizeable? Or maybe modify the script to do many other types of art beyond ASCII.

The options are endless and there is no wrong answer. This is all for fun, so try to customize the tool whichever way you think would be best and let's see what we get at the end of the month! Enjoy!

Project Repo/Instructions

If you've never made a pull request before, or participated in an open-source project, we recommend taking a look at our Start Here Guidelines. This repo has everything you need to learn about open-source, with a step-by-step guide to making your very first PR. Once you've got your feet wet, you're ready to come back and dive into Hacktoberfest fun!

Remember, you only need to make 4 pull requests to one of these open source projects in the month of October, and you get an awesome Hacktoberfest shirt! Let's see if we can beat the record from last year!!