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title: Hacktoberfest 2024
date: 2024-09-20
description: Animata celebrates Hacktoberfest 2024!
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Welcome to Animata’s Hacktoberfest 2024! 🎉 We're excited to have you contribute to our open-source project—**Animata**: a collection of customizable animation components for React & Tailwind projects.

In this post, we will provide the guidelines and information for contributing to Hacktoberfest. Whether you're working on a new animation component, fixing bugs, or improving documentation, this will be the central hub for all details related to your contributions.

### How to Get Involved:

1. **Explore Our Repository**: Check out the [official docs](https://animata.design/docs/contributing) and get familiar with our components.
2. **Choose an Issue**: Use our [GitHub Project Board](https://github.com/orgs/codse/projects/37/views/2) or look for issues labeled `hacktoberfest`. Feel free to pick one that interests you.
3. **Discuss**: Comment on the issue you're interested in and let us know you're working on it. If you have questions, we're here to help!
4. **Submit a PR**: Once you’ve completed your task, submit a pull request (PR) referencing the issue number.
5. **Follow Contribution Guidelines**: Before you submit your PR, make sure you’ve read and followed our [Contributing Guidelines](https://www.animata.design/docs/contributing).

### What Can You Contribute?

- Add new animation components to the library.
- Refactor or improve existing components.
- Fix/report bugs, or add new features.
- Improve documentation for ease of use.
- Enhance testing to ensure cross-browser compatibility.
- Provide your own design for a new component, if you're a designer.

### Tracking Progress

You can track the progress and pick tasks by visiting our [GitHub Project Board](https://github.com/orgs/codse/projects/37/views/0). The board is continuously updated with new issues and tasks for Hacktoberfest.

### How to Submit Your Work:

- Ensure your PR follows our contribution guidelines.
- Link the issue number in your pull request description (e.g., "Fixes #issue-number").
- Add relevant labels (e.g., `hacktoberfest`, `enhancement`, `bug-fix`).

### Join Our Community

Join our [Discord community](https://discord.gg/YfvqMf5MTE) to connect with other contributors and get support.

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### Contribution Rewards

We’re offering a **$100 reward** to one lucky contributor based on a raffle system.

### Contribution Rules

1. **Dates:**  
   Hacktoberfest runs from **October 1st UTC to October 31st UTC**.

2. **Contribution Complexity:**  
   Each contribution is rated by complexity and will earn you raffle entries as follows:

   - **Easy:** 1 entry
   - **Medium:** 2 entries
   - **Hard:** 3 entries
   - **Advanced:** 4 entries

3. **New Issue Submission:**  
   If you identify and submit a valid new issue (such as a bug report or a new component request, including your own design if you're a designer), you'll earn **1 additional entry**.

4. **Raffle System & Entry Limit:**
   Each contribution earns entries based on its difficulty, but for fairness, a maximum of 5 entries per user will be counted towards the raffle. You can contribute as much as you want, but only 5 of your entries will be added to the raffle system.

The winner will be selected randomly from all entries.

5. **Submission Deadline:**  
   All contributions must be submitted by **October 31, 11:59 PM UTC**.

6. **Payment Eligibility:**  
   To qualify for the **$100 reward**, you must be able to **receive international payments** via platforms like PayPal.

7. **Others:**
   - The reward will be paid within 30 days of the contest end date.
   - The reward is non-transferable and non-exchangeable.
   - Only contributions made during the Hacktoberfest event (October 1 to October 31) will count.
   - Contributions must follow the Hacktoberfest guidelines (e.g., no spammy PRs)

Thank you for being part of Animata's Hacktoberfest 2024! We’re looking forward to your contributions and making Animata better with your help. Happy hacking! 🎉
