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title: "Hacktoberfest 2021 - Contribute to DHIS2 and win a t-shirt (or plant a tree)"
description: "Every year, DigitalOcean and other partners sponsor Hacktoberfest to encourage open-source contributions. Contributors who make 4 or more useful pull-requests will be eligible to receive a free Hackto"
url: https://developers.dhis2.org/blog/2021/10/hacktoberfest
date: 2021-10-01
source: https://github.com/dhis2/developer-portal/edit/main/blog/2021-10-01-hacktoberfest.md
---

# Hacktoberfest 2021 - Contribute to DHIS2 and win a t-shirt (or plant a tree)

Every year, DigitalOcean and other partners sponsor [Hacktoberfest](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) to encourage open-source contributions. Contributors who make 4 or more useful pull-requests will be eligible to receive a free Hacktoberfest t-shirt. We also encourage you to consider the environmentally-conscious option of planting trees instead 🌳🎉

If you contribute (by opening a pull request which gets approved) to any open-source DHIS2 repository during the month of October, your contribution will count towards the 4 pull-request minimum required to claim your reward. Get hacking!

# FAQ

### What kind of contributions count?

Any pull request which is merged (or which are marked as `hacktoberfest-approved`) - this includes code, tests, documentation, and more!

### Which repositories can I contribute to?

Any open-source DHIS2 repository is eligible! If the repository doesn't already have the `hacktoberfest` label, just mention in your PR that you'd like Hacktoberfest credit and we will make sure you get it.