Call it another overwhelming indication of the power and potential of open source. DigitalOcean's Social Media Manager Daniel Zaltsman said that Hacktoberfest 2015, the month-long event encouraging people to contribute to GitHub-hosted open source projects, "was way more successful than we expected." "It's kind of crazy to look at the numbers," from this year to compared to last year, Zaltzman said. Although the much of the big data is still wriggling, Zaltsman reeled in a few statistics for The New Stack founder Alex Williams and managing editor Joab Jackson during this edition of The New Stack Analysts. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HZeDK5E38c Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-digitalocean-hacktoberfest/
Call it another overwhelming indication of the power and potential of open source. DigitalOcean's Social Media Manager Daniel Zaltsman said that Hacktoberfest 2015, the month-long event encouraging people to contribute to GitHub-hosted open source projects, "was way more successful than we expected."
"It's kind of crazy to look at the numbers," from this year to compared to last year, Zaltzman said. Although the much of the big data is still wriggling, Zaltsman reeled in a few statistics for The New Stack founder Alex Williams and managing editor Joab Jackson during this edition of The New Stack Analysts.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HZeDK5E38c
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-digitalocean-hacktoberfest/