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Hacktoberfest Hack Day Portland x Portland AI Devs

Hacktoberfest 2026

Saturday October 31, 2026
10:00AM to 1:00PM PDT
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Portland Business Accelerator
2130 SW 5th Ave
Portland, Oregon 97201
United States
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Event Description

Join us for a Hacktoberfest community event focused on learning, collaboration, and open-source contribution. Whether you’re new to open source or an experienced contributor, this is an opportunity to connect with fellow developers, explore real-world projects, and build together.

Throughout the event, participants will have the opportunity to:

Learn how to get started with open source and make meaningful contributions
Discover and contribute to projects that align with their interests
Collaborate with fellow developers and community members
Work on pull requests, issues, and other open-source contributions
Share knowledge, ideas, and experiences with the community
Meet new people and grow their developer network
The event is designed to be welcoming to developers of all experience levels. You don’t need to be an open-source expert to participate—just bring your curiosity, willingness to learn, and a desire to build something together.

Whether you join us in person, online, or through a combination of both, come ready to learn, collaborate, contribute, and connect.

Let’s celebrate open source and make Hacktoberfest a month of meaningful contributions and community-driven learning!

Learn more about Hacktoberfest events at https://hacktoberfest.com/events.

Who can attend?

Locations have different requirements for who can attend. This location is open to the following:

Links & Resources

Agent Skills Explained: What They Are, What They Aren't, and How to Use Them

Overview of the Agent Skill Open Standard and SKILL.md authoring.

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A Developer's Guide to Open-Weight LLM API Integration

Guide to deploying and integrating large open-weight LLMs.

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How to Run Google's Gemma 4 Locally with Ollama

Local setup and edge execution for models under 10B parameters.

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Hermes Agent: A Practical Guide

Setting up and orchestrating workflows using open-source agent harnesses.

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Gemma 4 Resources

General hub and documentation overview.

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Gemma Quickstart

Getting started guide and rapid API setup.

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Gemma API Docs

Endpoint specifications and API references.

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Gemma Beginner Guide

Step-by-step introduction for new developers.

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Varshith Chennuru
Harshavardhan Gupta Gattu
vinith reddy Kolkur
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This is a org which has few pople and we meet for discussing about tech news and have a chit chat on new things coming up these days and hang out to share ideas and build new things

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