Join iDempiere in Hacktoberfest 2025: Four Repositories Ready for Your Contributions!
October marks an exciting time for the open-source community worldwide, and iDempiere is thrilled to announce our participation in Hacktoberfest 2025! This annual event encourages developers, documenters, and enthusiasts to contribute to open source projects throughout the month of October. Whether seasoned or new to open source, Hacktoberfest offers a fantastic chance to learn, collaborate, and make a meaningful impact.
What is Hacktoberfest?
Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration hosted by DigitalOcean and partners, designed to foster open source contributions. Participants register on the Hacktoberfest site and submit pull requests to repositories tagged with the “hacktoberfest” topic. Successfully accepted contributions earn digital badges and help build the open-source ecosystem.
Where to Contribute to iDempiere?
We are excited to offer four active repositories as part of Hacktoberfest where contributors can dive in, from core ERP development to documentation and deployment improvements:
- iDempiere Core: The main repository where all the magic happens! Contribute to new features, fix bugs, or help optimize our ERP engine.
- iDempiere REST: Work on the API layer of iDempiere, enabling external integrations and modern web applications to interact with the ERP.
- iDempiere Documentation: Help improve or create new documentation for iDempiere. Your contributions here ensure that users and developers alike can navigate the platform with ease.
- iDempiere Docker: Contribute to the containerization of iDempiere, improving how the ERP is deployed and managed in Docker environments.
Why Contribute?
Hacktoberfest is more than just a coding challenge. It’s an opportunity to sharpen skills, collaborate with other contributors globally, and give back to a community-driven project that powers enterprises worldwide. Your contributions make a real difference, whether you’re coding, testing, documenting, or enhancing deployment.
How to Get Started:?
- Register on the official Hacktoberfest website.
- Pick any of the four iDempiere repositories mentioned above.
- Look for issues in the projects, some might be tagged as beginner-friendly.
- Submit high-quality pull requests between October 1 and 31.
- Celebrate your contributions and earn digital badges as your PRs get accepted!
Join us in making iDempiere stronger and more accessible through Hacktoberfest 2025. Whether improving core features, enhancing APIs, refining documentation, or improving deployment, your help is invaluable. Let’s make this October a month of collaboration and open-source success!
I am a systems engineer with a great passion for open source, software development, and technology in general. I have been part of the iDempiere community since 2012. I believe the enterprise world is one of the most aggressive environments out there. Companies tend to ruthlessly compete against each other. That is why seeing competitors co-exist and cooperate in harmony in iDempiere (and OSS communities in general) is so interesting to me.
