What happens when you combine 337 students, 20+ mentors, and an endless volley of tasks? During the time from November 2016 to January 2017, 368 Haiku tasks were successfully completed. The seventh year of Google’s Code-In, and the seventh for Haiku as a mentoring organization was a grand success.
We could try to participate in hacktoberfest as a replacement? But someone should take care of preparing a list of tasks (it’s easier than for GCI, just tag some tasks on the haikuports github repository) and registering us with the organizers