Hacktoberfest, a month-long event celebrating open source software organized by DigitalOcean in collaboration with GitHub and Twilio, encourages contributions by motivating projects to label contributor-friendly issues and pseudo-gamifying participation. Participants must sign up and submit five quality pull requests to public GitHub repositories within October to potentially earn a t-shirt. Gatsby is actively participating in Hacktoberfest by offering a welcoming environment for contributors, especially first-timers, by curating issues with clearly defined scopes that require minimal background knowledge. As part of its efforts, Gatsby continuously adds new issues throughout the month and provides support to contributors during the process. The initiative also coincides with Gatsby reaching a milestone of over 1,000 contributors, further emphasizing its commitment to fostering a vibrant open-source community.