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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: kashyap garimella Date: 10 September 2011 00:05 Subject: Hackfest 2011 To: Hi! It's time to get ready for the largest (and only) FOSS event at Shaastra 2011, the annual technical fest of IIT Madras. We, from the Shaastra team, proudly present to you 'Hackfest'... What is Hackfest all about? Hackfest is more than a FOSS event. To us, it's a movement to gather enthusiastic programmers together and get them on the tracks of open source development. It teaches them the sleight of the developer's hand and gives them a chance to peek into the world of development. Hackfest's Objective: Our primary objective is to help the participants take their first steps into the world of contribution to open source. Past glories: Over the past three years Hackfest has been a fantastic way to gather enthusiastic programmers together and get them started on contributing to open source projects. It gave an opportunity for the participants to learn what separates developers from regular users and coders and to interact with the Indian open source community. In the previous editions of the Hackfest, participants have fixed bugs and have even got patches! This has had a lasting effect; some of the participants have enthusiastically begun to contribute to their favorite Open Source projects, and are participating in this year's GSoC. What's new this year? For the first time in Hackfest, we are introducing a hardware programming workshop using Arduino. Apart from the Arduino workshop, we have workshops on KDE, Wikimedia and Drupal. Check the Hackfest website<http://www.shaastra.org/2011/main/events/Hackfest/>for more details and also the Hackfest Teaser <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VROHcNxf2Oo>. Registrations are open. Please hurry up and register @ http://www.shaastra.org/2011/main/events/Hackfest (You will need to create an account<http://www.shaastra.org/2011/main/register/user>on the Shaastra portal first) Hope to see you there! "Have fun hacking..." Kashyap Garimella, On behalf of Hackfest 2011 team. -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
