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-# 🎃 Hacktoberfest 🎃
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-[All the details you need](https://github.com/OperationCode/START_HERE/blob/master/README.md#-hacktoberfest-) before participating with us.
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 # Operation Code Blog
 
 Hello! We are starting to collect blog posts for the Operation Code blog so we can build a backlog of content. We want to welcome all kinds of contributors, so if you have a blog post you would like to see on whatever blogging platform we use, read below.