Participate in Hacktoberfest 2021 with Layer5
Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in the global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or a company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge. Join the Hacktoberfest Prep: Easing into CNCF Open Source Projects.
Layer5 celebrates and supports all open source contributors in our global community.
Layer5 is a warm and welcoming community of open source contributors. We are continuously welcoming new members. If would like to join as community member, simply fill-in the new community member form. New members are always welcome.
Our cloud native application and infrastructure management software enables organizations to expect more from their infrastructure. The Layer5 community represents the largest collection of service mesh projects and their maintainers in the world. We build projects to provide learning environments, deployment and operational best practices, performance benchmarks, create documentation, share networking opportunities, and more. Our shared commitment to the open source spirit pushes Layer5 projects forward.
Hacking on open source issues
We have communities spread across the month of October to introduce you to the Layer5 project repositories and help you get started on those pull requests.
A long list of hacktoberfest issues have been specially curated in anticipation of our hackers! Here is a list of help wanted issues to help you make your mark in open-source and move towards successfully completing the Hacktoberfest challenge.
Previous Hacktoberfest Tutorials
| Date | Topic | Resources | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 1st, 2020 | An Introduction to Contributing to Meshery | slides, recording | Vijay Cherukuri |
| Oct. 8th, 2020 | An Introduction to mesheryctl | slides, recording | Nupur Thakur |
| Oct. 15th, 2020 | A tutorial on contributing to Layer5 and working with Git | slides, recording | Ruth Ikegah |
| Oct. 22nd, 2020 | An introduction to all Layer5 repositories | slides, recording | Lee Calcote |
| Oct. 29th, 2020 | A tutorial on Gatsby | slides, recording | Jash Patel, Tanuj Agarwal |
| Nov. 4th, 2020 | Functional Testing with Cypress in Meshery UI | slides, recording | Rodolfo Martinez Vega |
| Jan. 28th, 2021 | Beginner's guide to contributing to Meshery and mesheryctl | slides, recording | Layer5 Contributor |
| Jul. 27th, 2021 | Contributing to Meshery API Swagger Documentation | recording | Piyush Singariya |
Help us better prepare to support you as you find your way into the world of Open Source by submitting this questionnaire(open in new window).
