Hacktoberfest in Neo4j Land

Learn more about Hactoberfest, coming this month to Neo4j land!

Fall is the perfect time of year to up your OSS contributions!

Now that in some countries, fall has arrived with colorful leaves, stormy weather,
and fog, your indoor activities in October can revolve around contributing to open-
source projects that could use some help.

Luckily for all of us, Digital Ocean has been running �Hacktoberfest� for 6 years
now.

You may also like: How to Participate in Open-Source Projects

They also published a FAQ for successful participation in the event, both for
maintainers and submitters.

Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open-source software and is run by

DigitalOcean and DEV.

Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community. To participate, four

pull requests must be submitted to public GitHub repositories. You can sign up
anytime between October 1 and October 31.

The initiative is encouraging maintainers to add that label to their project issues
and incentivizing active participants with some cool swag � T-shirts and stickers
to the first 50,000 participants!

They also have a detailed page on getting started, rules and values, and fighting
spam.

Like last year, for the Neo4j Ecosystem, we have a number of projects that are
participating in this cool idea.

SDN RX: the brand new reactive Neo4j Spring Integration [Hacktoberfest Issues]
Neo4j-Streams: the Neo4j Apache Kafka Integration library & plugins [Hacktoberfest
Issues]
APOC � Awesome Procedures On Cypher: the �standard� library for Neo4j covering
everything from data integration, graph refactoring to a lot of utility functions
[Hacktoberfest Issues]
Neo4j-GraphQL-Java � an graphql-to-cypher translation library for Java
[Hacktoberfest Issues]
If you maintain a project in our ecosystem and want to be highlighted, please add
those labels to your issues, and let us know too: devrel@neo4j.com.

Happy October-Hacking!

Further Reading
Open Up and Contribute to Open Source

How to Be a Good Open Source Community Member

How to Participate in Open-Source Projects