"Hacktoberfest encourages participation in giving back to the open source community by completing pull requests, participating in events, and donating to open source projects."
"GSoC is an international annual program in which Google awards stipends to contributors who successfully complete a free and open-source software coding project during the summer."
"JWoC (JGEC Winter of Code) is a coding event organised annually by JGEC which helps students to plunge into Open Source contribution and get the realm of Software Development."
"GirlScript Summer of Code is the 3 month long Open Source program during summers conducted by GirlScript Foundation with an aim to help beginners get started with Open Source Development"
