# Supabase Hacktoberfest 2020

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · Thor Schaeff · Sep 11, 2020

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Supabase announced its participation in Hacktoberfest 2020 by organizing a series of community events and open-source contribution activities. Contributors can attend scheduled live broadcasts, including a GitHub Open Source Friday stream featuring @kiwicopple on Twitch alongside an online introductory meetup hosted on YouTube. To coordinate development, Supabase launched a GitHub project board containing tasks and idea notes, requiring participants to label new issues with the hacktoberfest tag for official challenge qualification. Available engineering efforts span creating framework examples for Blitz.js and Redwood.js as well as writing specialized Postgres templates for diverse use cases. Non-code contribution pathways are also supported, encouraging community members to submit documentation improvements, user experience adjustments, illustrations, custom loading pages, or Lottie animations.

## Context

Hacktoberfest engages open-source communities to build software and improve technical skills, with the prior year logging 483,127 opened pull requests and 61,871 completed challenge participants.

## Approach / What changed

Supabase organized community events and established a centralized GitHub project board featuring labeled tasks across software development, design, and technical writing.

## Takeaways

- Supabase created a GitHub project board to organize open-source tasks and instructed contributors to tag newly created issues with the hacktoberfest label.
- Engineering tasks for the event include developing framework examples for Blitz.js and Redwood.js alongside creating Postgres templates for diverse use cases.
- Contribution avenues extend beyond coding to encompass documentation updates, UX improvements, illustrations, loading page designs, and Lottie animations.

**Tags:** [Developer Experience](https://yomu.fyi/topic/developer-experience), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source), [Postgres](https://yomu.fyi/topic/postgres)

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