--- title: Hacktoberfest 2026: More Than Just Contributions | daily.dev description: Hacktoberfest 2026 shifts its focus away from purely online pull-request contributions toward in-person and online community events, with over 300 gatherings... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/hacktoberfest-2026-more-than-just-contributions-9p01io7hn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Hacktoberfest 2026: More Than Just Contributions | daily.dev og:description: Hacktoberfest 2026 shifts its focus away from purely online pull-request contributions toward in-person and online community events, with over 300 gatherings... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/hacktoberfest-2026-more-than-just-contributions-9p01io7hn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9p01io7hn.png og:image:alt: Hacktoberfest 2026: More Than Just Contributions og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Hacktoberfest 2026: More Than Just Contributions **[Shaswat Shrivas](https://daily.dev/sources/rslrc74htxyv9xn0nwv4n)** · [@shaswat_shrivas](https://daily.dev/shaswat_shrivas) · 1 min read · 37 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary Hacktoberfest 2026 shifts its focus away from purely online pull-request contributions toward in-person and online community events, with over 300 gatherings planned around learning, building, and experimenting with open-source AI. The change aims to bring back an emphasis on people and community connection rather than just PR counts, and the author invites readers who have participated before to share their thoughts on the shift. ## Content Hacktoberfest is taking a slightly different direction this year, and honestly, I’m glad to see it. After years of being largely centered around online contributions and PRs, Hacktoberfest 2026 is bringing more focus back to **people and communities** — with 300+ in-person and online events planned around learning, building, and experimenting with open-source AI. I think there’s something valuable about actually sitting in a room with other developers, sharing what you know, learning something new, working on a project together, or simply meeting people from the community. If you’ve never taken part in Hacktoberfest before, this might be a good year to give it a read and find a Fest near you. And if you’ve been around for previous Hacktoberfests, I’d be interested to know what you think about this change. [Hacktoberfest 2026](https://hacktoberfest.com/) ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@agustinbarrientos** · 1 upvotes > I hope each local event adopts one small project for the whole month. Newcomers would meet a maintainer before choosing an issue. They'd also have somewhere familiar to return after the first patch. **@malibuconpiña** · 0 upvotes > since they didn't send tshirts and stickers i don't participate ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Hacktoberfest 2025 Comes to a Close](https://daily.dev/posts/hacktoberfest-2025-comes-to-a-close-qj9dencbt) · DigitalOcean · 5 upvotes · 1 comments - [Hacktoberfest 2025: Celebrate All Things Open Source\!](https://daily.dev/posts/hacktoberfest-2025-celebrate-all-things-open-source--zlwnhd2o1) · DigitalOcean · 64 upvotes · 1 comments - [Hacktoberfest 2025: How to Participate](https://daily.dev/posts/hacktoberfest-2025-how-to-participate-gdswdoss7) · DigitalOcean · 6 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#hacktoberfest](https://daily.dev/tags/hacktoberfest) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/hacktoberfest-2026-more-than-just-contributions-9p01io7hn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/hacktoberfest-2026-more-than-just-contributions-9p01io7hn","headline":"Hacktoberfest 2026: More Than Just Contributions","text":"Hacktoberfest 2026 shifts its focus away from purely online pull-request contributions toward in-person and online community events, with over 300 gatherings planned around learning, building, and experimenting with open-source AI. 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