As October rolls around once more, the term Hacktoberfest might pop across your feeds; an effort aiming to encourage people to contribute to open-source software, particularly if they’re new to that. In this post I’ll describe what I’m offering towards that goal. Hacktoberfest has been running since (I think) 2017 and I’ve participated in at least one year - previously contributors who had the requisite 4 PRs merged received a free t-shirt, but I suspect that program became overly cos...