Regular readers of DigitalOcean Community tutorials (like How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 18.04 or How To Spin Up a Hadoop Cluster with DigitalOcean Droplets) may have noticed that beyond setup instructions, tutorials often contain insights, tips, and pain points surfaced from real-world production scenarios. This…
2018 has been an exciting year for us on the DigitalOcean Community team as we surpassed over 2,000 tutorials in our repository in September! We continue to work with community authors to publish tutorials that serve developers. In February of this year we launched our Write for DOnations program,…
Five years ago the community team at DigitalOcean wanted to create a program to inspire open source contributions. That first year, in 2014, the first Hacktoberfest participants were asked for 50 commits, and those who completed the challenge received a reward of swag. 676 people signed up and 505 forged…
As part of Hacktoberfest season, now is a good time to consider the ways in which we can make open source repositories welcoming spaces for developers and end users alike. A great way to facilitate contributions and grow a user base is through providing documentation and encouraging enhancements to your…
It's that magical time of the year again: GitHub Universe, being held October 16-17, 2018, in San Francisco! Come check out our area, chat with our DevRel team, and take a picture with Sammy. For every attendee that shares their photo on Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #DigitalOceanLovesOS, we’…
