Prepare to participate in Hacktoberfest 2020

[bajtos]

Quoting from https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com:

Open source is changing the world - one pull request at a time.
Hacktoberfest encourages participation in the open source community, which grows bigger every year.

@dhmlau @raymondfeng and @bajtos agreed to join the festival this year.

Requirements (see https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/details/#maintainers):

• Apply the "Hacktoberfest" label to issues in your GitHub project that are ready for new contributors to work on.
  --> @bajtos to review "good first issues" and pick candidates for "Hacktoberfest" label

• Add a CONTRIBUTING.md file with contribution guidelines to your repository
  --> all is good - see https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-next/blob/master/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md

• Choose issues that have a well-defined scope and are self-contained.
  --> @bajtos to review "good first issues" and add details where needed

• Adopt a code of conduct to foster a greater sense of inclusion and community
  --> _ see [RFC] adopt contributor covenant v2 #4802_

Further reading: A maintainers guide to Hacktoberfest.

Other tasks:

• Write a blog post to announce our participation - https://strongloop.com/strongblog/2020-hacktoberfest/

• Open a GH issue describing how to participate, pin in a the top - 🎆 Hacktoberfest 2020 #6456

[dhmlau]

@bajtos, perhaps we can publish a blog towards the end of September to promote about this?

[bajtos]

@bajtos, perhaps we can publish a blog towards the end of September to promote about this?

I am thinking about the same! My plan is to write it early and schedule publishing for Tuesday 2020-09-29.

[bajtos]

Closing as done. I haven't managed to review all good-first-issues yet. There should be enough Hacktoberfest-labeled issues for the start, I'll review the remaining candidates in the next few days.