GitHub hosted a Patchwork hack night on September 30, 2014, at its headquarters in San Francisco, designed as a hands-on workshop for beginners to learn Git and GitHub without needing prior coding experience. The event aimed to foster community engagement and open source contribution by helping newcomers create their own open source projects and achieve their first merged Pull Request, thereby enhancing their confidence to participate in the open source community. GitHub staff, including @jlord who kicked off the event with a talk about her programming journey, along with local community mentors, provided guidance throughout the evening. The event also featured a closing lightning talk from a community member on their open source experience, with opportunities for attendees to RSVP as either participants or mentors, the latter receiving a curriculum overview prior to the event.