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It’s time to Hack!

Hacktoberfest is for everyone.
It’s time to hack, make Open Source contributions, and get Rewards! Join other members of the Community in the MindsDB Hacktoberfest Competition now …
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What an amazing #Hacktoberfest this year!
We are super excited to share the winners of the MindsDB Hacktoberfest 2022 Prize Draw! And the main prize goes to.... Read More

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This will result in more improvements and new exciting integrations to MindsDB in the coming release (more below) and we are incredibly grateful! 

MindsDB Challenges and Prizes

We have prepared several categories of open issues that are ideal for first-time developers, low-code, and no-code contributors.
They fall into the following categories:

Integration Ideas

Share a well-described idea of a new MindsDB integration. The authors of top upvoted ideas will get a T-shirt, cool audio gadgets, and a cash prize:

1st place: $500
2nd place: $300
3rd place: $200
See Rules

Code, Low & No-Code

Make as many contributions of your choice to win a high-end Razer Blade 15 Laptop or one of 10 cool audio gadgets!

Contribute to Docs
Share Social Media Posts
Report and/or fix a Bug
Make a QA/UX Test
Develop an Architectural Diagram
Write a Tutorial
Submit a UX Design
Build a Data-Source Integration
Make a Video Tutorial
Build AI Framework Integration
See Rules

Video Tutorials

Make as many contributions of your choice to win a high-end Razer Blade 15 Laptop or one of 10 cool audio gadgets!

Make video tutorials of using MindsDB and invite everyone to watch them on YouTube. The authors of the most popular videos will get a T-shirt, cool audio gadgets, and a cash prize:

1st place: $1000
2nd place: $500
3rd place: $300
See Rules
It’s entirely up to you what you choose to work on – just ensure it contains the “hacktoberfest” label.
If you have an idea that you don’t see listed then simply open a new issue with your proposal.
If you have any questions then please contact us at our
MindsDB Community Slack channel!

The Prize Draw

For every 10 points, you will receive one entry into the draw for the awesome Razer Blade 15 Laptop powered by the topNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU, 14-core Intel i9 CPU and more…

You can also win one of the 10 gadgets of your choice:
JBL Earbuds or Rugged Outdoor Speaker

Entries will close at midnight (PST) Monday, 31st of October with the winner announced on the first week of November.

To participate, you need to have your GitHub PRs merged and complete the form with your details.

Submit your work
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Additional rewards

Audio Gadgets

Authors of the top 3 upvoted ideas and top 3 video tutorials or winners of the prize draw, will get the gadget they like – either JBL Wireless Earbuds or Rugged Outdoor Speaker.

Audio gadget
MindsDb t-shirt

MindsDB T-shirt

For anyone who contributes with at least 5 points making pull requests to any of our open issues labeled Hacktoberfest and completes the form with your details

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Frequently asked questions

How many contributions can I make and how will they count?

Feel free to make as many contributions as you like to participate in as many categories as you want. For example, a video tutorial will give you points for the prize draw, and also let you participate in the video tutorials competition category. Or you can submit an integration idea for the ideas competition and also implement it and get points for the prize draw.

I don't have GitHub sponsorship available in my country. How can I receive the cash prize?

In case GitHub sponsorship is not available we will try to determine with you if there are any alternative options possible (bank transfer, gift voucher, etc)

Why do I need to submit the form with my contact details?

GitHub doesn’t currently allow privately contacting contributors within their platform, therefore we need your contact details to ensure the prizes can reach the winners

My PR cannot get merged before the contest deadline. What should I do?

Please reach out to us via community Slack as soon as possible. We will do our best to help you

I have some questions. How can I reach you?

You can always get in touch with us via our Community Slack

I have submitted the form but want to change it.

You should be able to edit the responses in the form and this is the best way to make edits before the submission deadline. In the worst case if you can’t access your previous response, you could submit another form, but please add some notes about that in the comments section.

How will I know if I win?

We will review all the submissions and make the draw during the first week of November (or mid-November for video tutorials, as per the rules). We will communicate the winners in our Community Slack, GitHub discussions and email them individually.

What should be the quality of the contributions?

MindsDB engineers will be reviewing all the code contributions thoroughly. If they do not pass tests or do not meet the contribution guidelines, we will reject the PRs.
For the non-code deliverables, we may also reject formal, nearly duplicative, low-quality submissions. No manipulations for earning points!

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