The Mindshare Committee discussed this in their weekly meeting. The general sentiment is positive towards supporting Fedoras participation Hacktoberfest! Some questions came up in our discussion:
1. What was last years outcome? How many people participated and what did they work on?
2. Do we expect mostly new contributors or existing?
3. The plan you outlined seems great, but a lot of work. Do you have some folks on board to assist?

Some notes

1. We were a bit underpowered the last year as we started preparing late (nearly one week close to the start of the Hacktoberfest). Hence, we directed folks to the Easyfix repositories and asked the maintainers to tag those tickets with hacktoberfest and folks could contribute to them. For the one day event that we had the last time on BlueJeans, around ~20-30% of the total participants were newcomers while the rest were speakers and the folks who were around at some earlier point, making a comeback.

2. As much as contributing to Fedora is done best, one step at a time - there is a lot of momentum factor too involved due to which some existing contributors might start feeling out of place after sometime if they are not able to find something to do. This event would potentially expect both new contributors (and try to get them into the community) and existing ones (who could use this opportunity to restart their contributions).

3. Unfortunately I don't. Any and every assistance in this regard would be highly appreciated. I am thinking of aggregating the first, second and sixth tasks from my outline as just one by reaching out to the folks maintaining those repos and ask them to tag their easyfix issues with hacktoberfest. I would keep the fifth task in the backseat too for now - until we come across people who can be able to help us with that.

Offtopic (or not) : Both Fragment and Easyfix rewrite repos are on GitHub and I am expecting massive contributions to the both of them down-the-line. I might put this point forth in the coming W&A meet and start planning how we can channel the voluminous contributions to effective progress.

I think We as a community need a presence in this event; It's a lot of work (maybe like in google code in). The mentors need to know the project to evaluate nontrivial commits.

I think Fedora-join can help but I'm not sure if we can handle all the work . but I'm +1

Quick update: dropped a mail on Dev ML.

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/6YTIXRPYVQM3IVERJAUL2BE2CKQBEYQC/

I am generally -1 to this as it often brings a lot of spam.
We haven't really any proper contribution through this event but yes, I understand @t0xic0der that it could be because of less efforts from our side.
Our projects are often mature.. easy fixes tickets are not a lot (be it because nature of our projects or just because we don't have people filtering out those).. so not sure how beneficial this can be at this point .. without a general change in our approach to highlighting issues way before October

@t0xic0der since you are pretty active with EasyFix and Fragment (say Møte), how about we just apply for those 2 repositories instead of all of Fedora-Infra org

We did best with what was made available last year but you're right, it brings a lot of spam - I myself had to deal with ~10 spammy PRs and today's just 1st October! It doesn't feel right committing in someone's (here, repo maintainers) behalf because this just adds a lot of metawork to filter through PRs. But for those who can, @bt0dotninja's mail should get them in a position to decide if they should.

There can be easy to fix issues in the repositories but I doubt if there would quick to fix issues - something that Hacktoberfest is unfortunately about and that itself removes the possibility of people contributing. Our repositories are nice and they are (mostly) well documented but I cannot say for sure if the PR maker would be meticulous enough to read through them.

I stayed up till late last night to tag the issues on Easyfix and Mote (2.0 :sunglasses:) with hacktoberfest and there have been a healthy in-flow of contributors (and some spams but hey, always look for the bright side :P). All in all, they are helpful in addressing a lot of trivial yet quick-to-fix issues and I see it as a good sign.

Quick update - We had a discussion in the Commops telegram channel with @bt0dotninja back in the last week of September and with @riecatnor (after Mindshare meetings) that in the wake of FWD, setting Outreachy projects and some more other things - we'd only be stretching ourselves thin if we added one more thing to the pile. So we decided to drop a mail and keep the effort minimal this time around.

Closing this ticket as there is no other action item on mindshare.. if I missed something, do reopen this ticket again