Hacktoberfest 2025
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The post announces Hacktoberfest 2025, an event promoting open-source contributions, with the community showing enthusiasm and support for the initiative.
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Yes, contributing should be encoraged, but contributing a lot in a short period of time is absolutely the wrong incentive for newcomers. You need to lurk around a longer time, following the mailing list, chat, committed changes of a project carefully before starting to contribute. Replying the questions might be better first step than sending in changes.