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 BE OPEN!
 Happy Coding!💻
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+Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community! Maintainers determine if their open-source projects participate by adding the 'hacktoberfest' topic. Quality pull requests submitted on GitHub and GitLab are rewarded. Engaged maintenance of Hacktoberfest tagged repositories are rewarded.