Hacktoberfest 2025, 30 October 2025
Open Source Series: Licensing, Version Control, Contributing, and Beyond
Everything a first-time open-source contributor needs for Hacktoberfest.
- Organizer
- PSITE DFCAMCLP-Chapter
- Venue
- National University Las Piñas
- Attendees
- 100
- Type
- Workshop
- Level
- Intermediate
- Duration
- 120 minutes
- Open Source
- Hacktoberfest
- Licensing
- Git
- GitHub
Abstract
A Hacktoberfest workshop covering the full open-source on-ramp: what open source and Hacktoberfest are, software licensing, version control with Git and GitHub, and how to make your first contributions, plus the GitHub Student Developer Pack.
Outline
- Hacktoberfest and the open-source ecosystem
- Software licensing, what you can and can't do
- Version control with Git and GitHub
- Forking, branching, and contributing via pull requests
- Claiming the GitHub Student Developer Pack
Key takeaways
- A license is what makes code legally usable, choose deliberately
- Contributing is a workflow (fork, branch, PR) anyone can learn
- The Student Developer Pack is a huge, free head start