Hacktoberfest with Interledger: Pay the Web Forward

Hacktoberfest with Interledger: Pay the Web Forward

What is Hacktoberfest?

Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of Open Source that encourages people to contribute to open source throughout October. This year marks the 11th edition of Hacktoberfest. Every year, thousands of contributors participate in this festival to contribute to the projects they love and use, learn and enhance their skills to advance their careers, and get mentorship and feedback from industry experts. For organizations that believe in giving back to the community, Hacktoberfest is a fantastic platform.

Interledger and Open Source 🌐

The Interledger Foundation aims to enhance access to digital financial services by advocating for adopting an open-source currency network powered by the Interledger Protocol (ILP). Moreover, it actively collaborates with historically marginalized groups to fulfil this mission. These core values inspire us at the Interledger Foundation to participate in Hacktoberfest.

This year marks the third edition of the Interledger Foundation participating in Hacktoberfest.

Read more about our Open Standards

Contributing to Interledger this Hacktoberfest 🌟

There are multiple ways to contribute to Interledger this Hacktoberfest. You can build new features, find and fix bugs, write tests, help with documentation, organize digital/physical events to contribute to your community, and much more.

Offline: Events 

We would love to partner with you and help with your Hacktoberfest events. If you are part of a community and are planning to conduct an event to educate and inform your community about Hacktoberfest, please fill out this form, and we will contact you.

Online: How to Get Started? 🚀

  • Head over to our GitHub repositories.
  • Star ⭐ projects on GitHub.
  • Filter repositories based on your skill set and interests.
  • Please read the contribution guidelines before you start contributing.
  • Find issues tagged with Hacktoberfest labels. Tip: Issues labelled as good first issuer or good first bug are ideal for new contributors.
  • Once you've chosen an issue, work on your contribution.
  • When you're ready, submit a pull request. Our maintainers and community members will review your work and provide feedback if necessary.
  • After your pull request is merged, you've officially contributed to Interledger.

A few repositories that are participating in Hacktoberfest

Open Payments

Open Payments is an open API standard that can be implemented by account servicing entities (e.g. banks, digital wallet providers, and mobile money providers) to facilitate interoperability in the setup and completion of payments for different use cases including:

  • Web Monetization
  • Tipping/Donations (low value/low friction)
  • eCommerce checkout
  • P2P transfers
  • Subscriptions
  • Invoice Payments

Repo link - https://github.com/interledger/open-payments 

Contribution guide - https://github.com/interledger/open-payments?tab=readme-ov-file#contributing 

Rafiki

Rafiki is open-source software that allows an Account Servicing Entity to enable Interledger functionality on its users' accounts.

This includes:

  • sending and receiving payments (via SPSP and Open Payments)
  • allowing third-party access to initiate payments and view transaction data (via Open Payments)

Repo link - https://github.com/interledger/rafiki

Contribution guide - https://github.com/interledger/rafiki/blob/main/.github/contributing.md

Testnet

Testnet is an open-source test application for Rafiki. In other words, a Rafiki Playground. It wants to use all of the functionalities of Rafiki and put its advantages to the real test.

Testnet is made up (or will be made up soon) of several components, including a wallet application, a bank application, and an e-commerce application.

Repo link - https://github.com/interledger/testnet

Contribution guide - https://github.com/interledger/testnet/blob/main/.github/contributing.md

Helm charts

This is a Helm Charts repository for Interledger Kubernetes.

Repo link - https://github.com/interledger/helm-charts

and many more on Interledger repositories.

Web Monetization

Web Monetization browser extension is an open-source implementation of the Web Monetization draft specification. It is built with React and TypeScript.

Learn more at the links below.

What's in It for You? 🎁

As a Hacktoberfest contributor at Interledger, you will receive:

  • The opportunity and satisfaction of contributing to the next big innovation in Open and Inclusive finance systems.
  • An opportunity to collaborate with and learn from like-minded and passionate individuals at the Interledger Foundation. 
  • $10 added to your wallet for making 1 or more accepted pull requests (First 10 contributors)
  • T-shirt for contributing 4 or more accepted pull requests (First 50 contributors)
  • Organizers will get a t-shirt and sticker pack (First 5 events accepted)

Hacktoberfest is an opportunity to connect, collaborate, and create change through open-source contributions. Join Interledger on this exciting journey, and let's work together to build a more inclusive and interconnected financial future.

If you still have questions or doubts, join our #Hacktoberfest channel on Interledger Community Slack here.

We can't wait to see the incredible contributions you'll make. Happy Hacktoberfest! 🚀🌟🎉