GitLab Hackathon

Joining in

The Hackathon is a virtual event open to anyone who is interested in contributing code, documentation, translations, UX designs and more to GitLab. Prizes are awarded to participants for having Merge Requests (MRs) merged and there may also be special award categories at each Hackathon.

To get started:

1. Block the dates on your calendar!
2. Check out the Contribute page.
3. Checkout the list of suggested issues for this Hackathon.
4. If you have decided to work on an issue, it helps if you leave a comment. That way it's less likely for multiple people to be working on the same issue.
5. Join the tutorial sessions
6. Share the MRs you are working on, get help or help others. Join the party at the contributors channel.

Hackathon Prizes

We are excited to offer the following categories of prizes for this Hackathon:

All qualifying MRs must be submitted on September 2nd & 3rd in your local timezone and be merged by September 15th at 23:00 UTC.

Categories	Eligibility	Prizes	Description
Grand Prize	Individual(s) with the most MRs merged		$100 to spend at the GitLab store
Second Place	Individual(s) with the second most MRs merged		Self cleaning water bottle
Merged MR	Everyone with an MR merged		Laptop sleeve

All qualifying MRs must be submitted on September 2nd & 3rd in your local timezone and be merged by September 15th at 23:00 UTC.

Tutorial sessions

Tutorial sessions during the Hackathon help you get kickstarted with contributing and to learn more about GitLab development. More sessions/speakers may be added as they are confirmed.

Date	Time in UTC (click for local time)	Topic	Session	Speakers
September 2	06:00 - 06:45	Hackathon Kickoff + Core Team meeting	Presentation	Ray Paik (@rpaik), Dave Planella (@dplanella), Core Team
September 2	14:00 - 14:50	Runner office hour (Runner office hour issue)		Darren Eastman (@DarrenEastman), Eliott Rushton (@erushton), Steve Azzopardi (@steveazz), Tomasz Maczukin (@tmaczukin)
September 2	16:00 - 16:50	Package group office hour (Package office hour issue)		Tim Rizzi (@trizzi)
September 2	17:00 - 17:30	Migrating GitLab Pajamas components (Pajamas components migration issue)	Presentation	Jeremy Elder (@jeldergl), Sam Beckham (@samdbeckham)
September 2	18:00 - 18:30	Release Management tutorial	Presentation	Jackie Porter (@jreporter)
September 3	22:00 - 22:30	Hackathon wrap-up	Presentation	Ray Paik (@rpaik)

If you miss any of the sessions, you will find the recordings in the Hackathon Playlist.

Getting help

For communications during the Hackathon, we will use the GitLab Contributors room in Gitter. This is a channel for community-related discussions and for community members to help each other as people have questions when contributing to GitLab.

It's open to everyone, so please join us at the Contributors Gitter room!

Missed the last Hackathon?

If you missed the previous Hackathon, you still have an opportunity to contribute for a prize. You can start by searching for priority issues with the label Community challenge as you can see in this query. For the next several months, anyone who works on these issues and have an MR merged will receive a GitLab-branded cannister for your coffee beans or tea leaves (photo below).

Past events

To learn more about previous Hackathon events, visit the past GitLab Hackathons page.