It’s Hacktoberfest, the month-long hack celebration thrown annually by DigitalOcean that is all about getting more people involved in open source. Although we’re a little (fashionably?!) late to the party, we wanted to let you know we added the ”hacktoberfest” topic to the FiftyOne project on GitHub again this year and are open for Hacktoberfest contributions!

For those of you participating in Hacktoberfest, we hope you’ll consider hacking on open source FiftyOne and we look forward to seeing and accepting your pull/merge requests. If you’re looking for a good place to get started, we tagged a collection of “good first issues” in GitHub for you to consider. If you need assistance, reach out anytime in the FiftyOne Community Slack. We’re standing by to help you be successful with FiftyOne this Hacktoberfest and beyond!

Wait, What’s FiftyOne?

FiftyOne is an open source machine learning toolset that enables data science teams to improve the performance of their computer vision models by helping them curate high quality datasets, evaluate models, find mistakes, visualize embeddings, and get to production faster.

• If you like what you see on GitHub, give the project a star.
• Get started! We’ve made it easy to get up and running in a few minutes.
• Join the FiftyOne Slack community, we’re always happy to help.

Open Source Is in Our DNA

We first released the open source FiftyOne project a little over two years ago, and since then we’ve added a ton of new features in partnership with the community, which has now grown to tens of thousands of engineers and their forward-looking companies, 1900+ GitHub stars, 1000+ Slack members, and 1000+ Meetup members. All-year-round we welcome community contributions of all kinds — whether you submit GitHub issues to see new features you’d like added or make contributions to the project itself, everyone is welcome.

As a fellow group of open source maintainers and enthusiasts ourselves, we love everything that Hacktoberfest stands for: encouraging more people to get involved in open source, encouraging collaboration, encouraging contributions of all types at all levels, especially making it super friendly for people who are just getting started. In fact, looking at the Hacktoberfest values, we feel a lot of natural alignment with our own values in the FiftyOne community:

These are just some of the reasons we are excited to be part of Hacktoberfest again this year.

How to Contribute to FiftyOne

Community contributions are always welcome to the open source FiftyOne project! Check out the contribution guide to learn how to get involved. The guide covers:

• GitHub issues
• Pull requests
• Contribution guidelines
• Developer guide
• Documentation
• More!

In addition, we tagged a collection of “good first issues” in GitHub for you to consider working on. Here are just a few examples, but please do browse the entire collection to find the one you’d like to contribute to.

Finally, join the #contributors channel in the Slack community anytime to get help, discuss ideas, or ask questions about contributing to open source FiftyOne. Hope to see you there!

What’s Next

• Find out more about participating in the Hacktoberfest event.
• Get started with FiftyOne! We’ve made it easy to get up and running in a few minutes. Take it for a spin and get a sense for what contributions you want to make.
• Make your contributions using this guide as a foundation.
• If you need any assistance along the way, join the FiftyOne Slack community; we’re always happy to help, during Hacktoberfest and beyond.