October has been an amazing success for the #opensource community!

At Hashnode we celebrated it in style with our Symposium and Twitter Spaces. Writers won grants for their favorite #opensource projects, as well as exclusive badges, available only for the month of October! All they had to do was to write at least one article and tag it with #opensource between the 1st and the 31st of October. You can find more details about it here.

Thanks so much to everyone who participated! Your thoughts, ideas and tips have reached more people than you might realize. 😊

And now, drumroll, please... 🥁 time to announce the winners!

🏆 OSS Project Winners

The top 5 #opensource writers with the greatest total number of reactions in October have won a 1,000 USD sponsorship, to be paid out to the OSS project of their choice!

1. Ayodele Samuel Adebayo with What, Who, When and Where of Open Source Contribution
2. Tapas Adhikary with Introducing WebAPIs Playground - An app to play and learn Web APIs
3. Benny Ifeanyi Iheagwara with How to Contribute to Open Source Projects as a Non-Coder?
4. Avneesh Agarwal with Finding the Right Open Source Projects to Contribute to
5. Chris Bongers with 8 Non-technical ways to contribute to open-source

🎁 Badges Winners

OSS First Timer

1. Diky Hadna 👾
2. Anurag Yadav
3. Taryn McMillan
4. VISWAPRASATH KS
5. Wisnu Adi Nurcahyo
6. Suresh Kumar
7. Nahuel Garbezza
8. Anish De
9. Marcelo Zárate
10. Asmit Malakannawar
11. Salim Oyinlola
12. Michael Larocca
13. Juan Sebastián Mendoza
14. Maaz Ahmed

OSS Documentarian

1. Eugene Goh
2. C K Vignesh
3. Ayu Adiati

OSS Cheerleader

1. Diky Hadna 👾
2. Pragati Verma
3. Vihar Kurama
4. Datagod
5. typogram team
6. Chandrika Deb
7. Tafadzwa Demba
8. drishti peshwani
9. Geeky Chakri
10. SONIA SINGLA
11. Soumendra kumar sahoo
12. Karthikeyan
13. Ekomobong Edem Gold
14. Gaurav Gupta
15. Kevine Nzapdi
16. B.Jothin kumar
17. Rizel Scarlett
18. Saharsh Laud
19. Pixel Vision 8
20. Jesse Freeman
21. Alex Araiza
22. Rohit Purkait
23. Suresh Kumar
24. Salim Oyinlola
25. Avneesh Agarwal
26. Anish De
27. Ayodele Samuel Adebayo
28. Tapas Adhikary
29. Joe Carpinelli

OSS Brain Buster

1. Priyansh Patidar
2. Diky Hadna 👾
3. Michael Larocca

OSS Mentor

1. Afoma Orji
2. Kylee Codes
3. atinuke oluwabamikemi kayode
4. Ayodele Samuel Adebayo
5. Kaushal Joshi
6. Hulya Karakaya
7. Avneesh Agarwal
8. Tapas Adhikary
9. Taryn McMillan
10. lary mak
11. Alabo Excel
12. Murewa Ashiru
13. Crislana Rafael
14. Chris Bongers
15. Dewan Ahmed
16. VISWAPRASATH KS
17. Michael Larocca
18. Yashasvi Singh
19. Ayu Adiati
20. Rohit Purkait
21. Marvin Kweyu
22. Kaushal Joshi
23. Dev Valecha
24. Amarachi Emmanuela Azubuike
25. Rishit Dagli
26. Ruphaa Ganesh
27. Estee Tey
28. Tolu Adegboyega
29. Sarthak Delori
30. Yuri Lee
31. Benny Ifeanyi Iheagwara
32. Lakshya Thakur
33. Francesco Perticarari
34. Paul Di Gian
35. Souvik Raj Singh
36. Mr. Ånand
37. Yuri
38. Maaz Ahmed
39. Michael Asiedu
40. Nehal Sharma

OSS Scholar

1. VISWAPRASATH KS
2. Alexandra Mormontoy
3. Krish Gupta

How to Claim Your Prize:

OSS Project Winners 🎟

You will receive an email with instructions to claim the prize from the Hashnode team in the next few days.

Badges Winners 💰

Badges will be automatically assigned to your blog.

What Comes Next

Thank you again for participating and spreading awareness about #opensource and its importance. Just because October has ended doesn't mean you should stop contributing!

Are you expecting an OSS badge, but don't see your name on the list above? Don't worry, send an email to Eleftheria (that's me!) with your article and the badge you're aiming for. 📝

Just as October was all about the Open Source community on Hashnode, in November we're shining a light on our Web3 creators. Come join the conversation on the #web3 tag!

Which developer communities would you like to see us highlight in December and beyond? Comment below with your favorite community hashtag! 👇