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 [https://alicewonderland.github.io/hacktoberfest/](https://alicewonderland.github.io/hacktoberfest/)
 
 ## What is Hacktoberfest?
-A month-long celebration from October 1st - 31st sponsored by [Digital Ocean](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) and [GitHub](https://github.com/blog/2433-celebrate-open-source-this-october-with-hacktoberfest) to get people involved in [Open Source](https://github.com/open-source). Create your very first pull request to any public repository on GitHub and contribute to the open source developer community.
+A month-long celebration from October 1st - 31st sponsored by [Digital Ocean](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) and [GitHub](https://github.com/blog/2433-celebrate-open-source-this-october-with-hacktoberfest) to get peoples involved in [Open Source](https://github.com/open-source). Create yours very first pull request to any public repository on GitHub and contribute to the open source developer community.
 
 [https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/)