# Community

## Contribution

KICS is a true community project. It's built as an open source from day one, and everyone can find their own way to contribute to the project.
[Check out how](CONTRIBUTING.md), within just minutes, you can start making a difference, by sharing your expertise with a community of thousands of security experts and software developers.

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## Hacktoberfest
*"[Hacktoberfest](https://github.com/topics/hacktoberfest) is a month-long celebration of open source projects, their maintainers, and the entire community of contributors. Each October, open source maintainers give new contributors extra attention as they guide developers through their first pull requests on GitHub."*<br />

-   [Open Issues for the event](https://github.com/Checkmarx/kics/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22hacktoberfest%22)

## Meet us at conferences

-   [Blackhat ASIA 2023](https://www.blackhat.com/asia-23/arsenal/schedule/index.html#kics---your-iac-secure-now-31009) (video TBD)
-   [AWS re:Invent 2021: AWS On Air](https://youtu.be/9ZKldJeBHl4) ([video](https://youtu.be/9ZKldJeBHl4))
-   [OWASP Bristol & Suffolk Chapter - Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/OWASP-Bristol/events/281869377/) ([video](https://youtu.be/KKZJEJF6I0M))
-   [OWASP Canberra Chapter - Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/OWASP-Canberra-Chapter/events/281946376/)
-   [InfoSec City - Singapore 2021](https://www.infosec-city.com/sin21-bizcomm)
-   [DevSecOps Singapore 2021](https://devopscon.io/cloud-platforms-serverless/infrastructure-is-the-new-code-is-your-devsecops-ready/)
-   [Blackhat Europe 2021](https://www.blackhat.com/eu-21/arsenal/schedule/#kics-keeping-infrastructure-as-code-secure-25111)
-   [HashiTalks IL 2021](https://events.hashicorp.com/hashitalksisrael) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFRiSVH4lu0))
-   [Yalla DevOps 2021](https://yalla-devops.com/) ([video](https://youtu.be/Hs_YbAH9giI))
-   [Geektime Code 2021](https://code.geektime.co.il/)
-   [DevSecCon24 2021](https://www.devseccon.com/devseccon24-2021/) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaD-tGMOKe8))
-   [GISEC Global 2021](https://www.gisec.ae/gisec-2021-conference/insecure-infrastructure-as-code-leaves-the-door-open-for-hackers-1wez)
-   [Blackhat ASIA 2021](https://www.blackhat.com/asia-21/arsenal/schedule/#kics-22475) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56AM1wiIOss))