Ah September! The leaves begin to change colors, the air gets cooler, and pumpkin spice everything hits the shelves. It’s also one short month before Digital Ocean’s Hacktoberfest! 

We look forward to this event every year because we believe that open source is vital to software development. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to solve tough challenges, make awesome friends, or even be able to build apps with Flutter.

Our team is deeply invested in the open source community, whether it’s creating our own packages like very_good_analysis, contributing to existing code, or supporting open source libraries like bloc.

This year, we plan to host two events to showcase our 💙 for open source software and encourage the Flutter Community to participate in Hacktoberfest. Join us!

#VeryGoodOSS Events

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How to Contribute to Open Source

Monday September 28, 2020

For beginners and seasoned developers alike, this virtual session showcased best practices for contributing to open source projects — from opening an issue to merging the PR. The session concluded with a one-pager for participants to download our very good tips on contributing to open source and a list of recommended packages ready for contributions.

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Missed the event? You can view it here:

"Live" Coding Sessions

October 26, 2020 through October 29, 2020

The VGV Chicago team enhanced a GitHub Action to showcase the real-time process of building upon an open source codebase.

You can view all four sessions here:

To stay updated on these events (and more!), make sure to follow us on Twitter @VGVentures, bookmark this blog, and sign up for Hacktoberfest here!