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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Dear ArchivesSpace Users, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in">This is the final week of Hacktoberfest so be sure to submit your pull requests now if you’d like to win the ArchivesSpace swag bag!
<span style="color:black">This October, ArchivesSpace </span>has been<span style="color:black"> participating in
<a href="https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Hacktoberfest</span></a>, a month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean. Hacktoberfest is open to anyone who contributes pull requests to participating open
source repositories on GitHub or GitLab</span>.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">Whether you’re new to ArchivesSpace development or a long-time contributor, we encourage you to get involved. No specific background or skill level is required to get started, and all community contributions are
welcome and appreciated. To learn more about submitting a pull request for ArchivesSpace specifically, visit our
<a href="https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/39682053/Submitting+a+Pull+Request">
<span style="color:#1155CC">wiki.</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">To qualify for the official Hacktoberfest competition, you must register and make four pull requests between October 1-31. Pull requests can be made to any public repository on GitHub or GitLab, including
<a href="https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace"><span style="color:#1155CC">ArchivesSpace</span></a>. Any qualifying pull request submitted to the
<a href="https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace"><span style="color:#1155CC">ArchivesSpace GitHub</span></a> between October 1 and October 31 will get a Hacktoberfest label. To learn more about qualifying pull requests and how to notify Hacktoberfest
of your pull requests, visit the <a href="https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/resources/participation?mkt_tok=MTEzLURUTi0yNjYAAAF_stdPSUyGyqC_Ktqan1P6gMCRfs3fp2MIyRayBcOd9VbatAOkVC01RVZQ9hhscJSZzb-JvkQNE-_xCjMcnRGFL9g1yEeCP5w5WECTB_2B">
<span style="color:#1155CC">official Hacktoberfest website</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black">In addition to the official Hacktoberfest swag options, ArchivesSpace will acknowledge all submitters, regardless of number of pull requests, in our monthly update. The community member who submits the most pull
requests in the month of October will receive an ArchivesSpace swag bag! Last year’s winner of the coveted ArchivesSpace swag bag was Joshua Shaw from Dartmouth College. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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We hope you will join us in this celebration of the open source community. Please email us at
<a href="mailto:ArchivesSpaceHome@lyrasis.org"><span style="color:#1155CC">ArchivesSpaceHome@lyrasis.org</span></a> if you have questions or want to know more about contributing code to the
<a href="https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace"><span style="color:#1155CC">ArchivesSpace GitHub</span></a>. To learn more about Hacktoberfest, visit their
<a href="https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/"><span style="color:#1155CC">official website</span></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Jessica Dowd Crouch</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Community Engagement Coordinator for ArchivesSpace</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:jessica.crouch@lyrasis.org">jessica.crouch@lyrasis.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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