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+title: "Hacktoberfest 2025"
+description: "Designing with Meshery - Prepare for Hacktoberfest with Layer5 MeshMates and Maintainers. Join seasoned open source maintainers, hack through easy issues, and grow your skills. Discover Newcomers resources and explore the Layer5 Community Handbook."
+thumbnail: ./hacktoberfest-layer5-first-pr.webp
+darkthumbnail: ./hacktoberfest-layer5-first-pr.webp
+permalink: "hacktoberfest/2025"
+program: "Hacktoberfest"
+programSlug: "hacktoberfest"
+date: 2025-10-03
+eurl: https://www.youtube.com/live/1-oaEy0Pm5I
+type: Event
+speakers: ["Ritesh Karankal", "Aabid Sofi", "Yash Sharma", "Eti Ijeoma", "Darshan Narasimha"]
+published: true
+---
+
+import { Link } from "gatsby" ;
+import hacktoberfestBadge from "./layer5-hacktoberfest-2025-badge.png";
+
+<p>
+<Link to="/programs/hacktoberfest">Hacktoberfest</Link> is just around the corner, and it's an exciting opportunity to get involved in Layer5 projects. You might be surprised to learn how even small contributions can make a meaningful impact on a project. As projects grow, issues can easily go unnoticed, and your efforts in resolving them can truly make a difference while also helping you grow as a contributor.
+</p>
+
+<p>As in years past, Layer5 has a number of different projects and a variety of technologies for participants to choose from. For Hacktoberfest 2025, our theme will center on Designing with Meshery. <Link to="/cloud-native-management/meshery">Meshery</Link> is an extensible, self-service platform for collaborative infrastructure management. Be sure to understand the <Link to="/blog/meshery/comparing-meshery-models-and-meshery-designs">difference between Meshery Models and Meshery Designs</Link>. The Meshery project is looking for contributors to extend these models to support new cloud native infrastructure and their features.</p>
+
+<p>
+Prepare for Hacktoberfest and ready yourself for contributing to CNCF projects the easy way with Layer5 <Link to="/community/meshmates">MeshMates</Link> and Maintainers. Spend an hour with seasoned, open source maintainers and hack your way through. To get a head start, see our <Link to="/community/newcomers">Newcomers Resources</Link>. Get familiar with the Layer5 community through our <Link to="/community/handbook">Community Handbook</Link>.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Earn a Badge </h3> 
+<p>Earn a Hacktoberfest Contributor badge by contributing to Layer5 projects during this Hacktoberfest.</p>
+<img src={hacktoberfestBadge} style="width: 250px"/>
+
+<ul>
+    <li><strong>DATE:</strong> October 3rd, 2025</li>
+    <li><strong>TIME:</strong> 14:00 UTC (9AM CDT | 4PM CEST | 3PM WAT | 7:30PM IST)</li>
+    <li><strong>LIVESTREAM:</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/1-oaEy0Pm5I">Livestream</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p> Resources:</p>
+<ul>
+    <li><Link to="/blog/open-source/ways-to-contribute-at-layer5">Code and Non-Code Contributing at Layer5</Link></li>
+    <li><a href="https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen%20is%3Aissue%20archived%3Afalse%20(org%3Alayer5io%20OR%20org%3Ameshery%20OR%20org%3Aservice-mesh-performance%20OR%20org%3Aservice-mesh-patterns%20OR%20org%3Alayer5labs%20OR%20org%3Ameshery-extensions)%20label%3Ahacktoberfest">Issues for Hacktoberfest</a></li>
+    {/* <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/1-oaEy0Pm5I">Recorded Livestream</a></li> */}
+</ul>