Hacktoberfest 2018: The Recap

Breaking down the numbers

Let’s comb through some numbers on what Hacktoberfest looked like for me!

Contributions

I managed to land a total of 10 pull requests (some merged, others not) across projects by Microsoft, Hugo, Auth0, Hasura, OpenEBS, Nexmo, and Mozilla:

1. https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Virtualization-Documentation/pull/866
2. https://github.com/TheRedSpy15/Multi-Go/pull/4
3. https://github.com/TheRedSpy15/Multi-Go/pull/6
4. https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/pull/6620
5. https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/5339
6. https://github.com/auth0/open-source-template/pull/5
7. https://github.com/openebs/node-disk-manager/pull/167
8. https://github.com/Nexmo/nexmo-cli/pull/184
9. https://github.com/hasura/gitkube/pull/99
10. https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/pull/6761

Of these 10 pull requests, 5 have been merged with the other 5 pending a review.

Blogs

I’ve written a total of 5 blog posts (not including this one), culminating to 2,947 words in total, with ~589 on average. Together they have captured 276 views with viewers on average reading 55% of my blog contents (not including Part 4):

Blog analytics for October from Medium.com

Tweets

I’ve tweeted 5 times about my Hacktoberfest blogs:

1. https://twitter.com/SeanPrashad/status/1049361223752372224

2. https://twitter.com/SeanPrashad/status/1051562230582374400

3. https://twitter.com/SeanPrashad/status/1054115499951370240

4. https://twitter.com/SeanPrashad/status/1056405777022210048

5. https://twitter.com/SeanPrashad/status/1056770629842522113

Which translated into:

• 8,807 impressions
• 46 media engagements
• 100 link clicks
• 53 likes
• 23 detail expands
• 22 profile clicks
• 13 retweets

Community

I also spoke for the first time at a conference as part of a panel 👴🏻🎤👦🏽👩🏼👩🏽👦🏻

3 Great Experiences

• Having the creator of Hugo see my tweet and instantly merge my PR
• Playing through Twilio Quest to learn about Twilio’s API
• Watching friends like Mera fail and stand back up, ready to kick 🍑

3 Suggestions for Next Year

• Do not include contributions to your own personal repos
• Allow individuals to create a GitHub organization to track analytics for their members
• Provide light training to participating projects that are new (what to expect, how to handle the volume of PR’s, setup GitHub issue templates etc)