Month Long Events That You Can Participate In

Hacktoberfest 

This is a month long event which happens in October where you can contribute to open source projects and raise pull requests or merge requests and when your PR/MR will be accepted after a seven day review period. You get badges for participation for registering and also for getting your PRs accepted. You also get a reward kit of all four of your PRs are accepted. The reward kit consists of offers, discounts, free access etc to online software development products. You also get a tree planted in your name if you are one of the first fifty thousand participants to complete the challenge. This was how the process was this year. I believe the process changes regularly. Before they used to give free t-shirts but they do not do that anymore because it is not that sustainable. Anyway, Hacktoberfest is a truly rewarding experience for all the technologists and coders out there!

NaNoWriMo

This is a month long event which happens in November where people who participate in the event write a novel which has at least 50,000 words. You get badges for maintaining a streak, for tracking your progress, for hitting a milestone in your word count, etc. You also get discounts and offers to various writing software. You can also attend several virtual write-together-a-thons which are arranged with several guest authors. There are also other virtual events which you can attend. Overall, it is an amazing experience and at the end of the month you have a novel in your hands. A variant of this is Camp NaNo which happens in April and July. Camp NaNo is more flexible as it lets you choose your writing goals. 

Veganuary

This is an event which happens in January where people are encouraged to go vegan for a month. There is a website where people can register and they get tips, tricks and recipes to stay vegan throughout the month. I think this is a great way to save animal lives. It is also a great a way to save human lives because going vegan is good for your body, it saves you from a lot of diseases, it helps in weight loss and it also helps in reducing cholesterol. Veganuary was started in 2014 in the UK and has since grown into a bigger movement where people share their veganism experiences throughout the month on social media with the hashtag #Veganuary to meet like minded people and promote veganism. 

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