Hacktoberfest is back and gr-eight-er than ever!

DigitalOcean is hosting the eighth annual Hacktoberfest, a month-long celebration of the open-source community. This year's event introduces new initiatives to further support the open-source community, including ways for people to participate without submitting pull requests. New features include showing appreciation to maintainers, enabling donations through Open Collective and GitHub Sponsors directly to open source projects, and adding GitLab support for Hacktoberfest. The event is open to anyone worldwide, with participants encouraged to contribute 4 accepted pull requests or make a donation to their favorite open-source project.