How Indeed More Than Doubled Hacktoberfest Participation Year Over Year
summary
Indeed more than doubles Hacktoberfest engagement year over year: employee participants climb from 35 in 2018 to 106 in 2019, contributions rise from ~700 to >2,000 and pull requests from ~150 to 329. Growth follows concrete steps: collecting GitHub IDs (29 → +75), launching an internal mariner project that pulls open tickets, running weekly regional study halls, and a dedicated Slack channel for live help and celebration. Metrics and repeat contributors increase, and the program demonstrably scales across time zones.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and overview
- 1:492018 approach and results
- 6:032018 metrics and lessons
- 10:182019 strategy and goals
- 11:21Ambassador program setup
- 12:02Tactical execution in 2019
- 16:172019 results and comparison
- 18:23Key takeaways and future plans
- 20:30Q&A and closing
related talks
44mFive years, 1000 students: The story of Open Source Comes to Campus
15mGetting Started Contributing
45mHacking Communities: ROI of Belonging
10mCollaboration Is Evolving
25mHow to Grow and Mentor an Open Source Community & Achieve Collaboration with Over 170...
34mHow to get them to Commit?
47mCare and Feeding of Volunteers
39mCommunity and Contributors Panel