Hackfest at IIT Madras

[Sri Ram]

Hi!

It's time to get ready for the largest (and only) FOSS event at
Shaastra 2010, 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 two 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?
This year, Hackfest is back with a lot of new stuff to offer. Some of
the projects that the participants will be hacking on this year are
Google Android, Gnome, KDE, Git, Kernel, Mozilla and Minix.

Registrations are open. Please hurry up and register @
http://www.shaastra.org/2010/userportal/events/register/Hackfest
(You will need to create an account on the Shaastra userportal first)

For more information,visit
http://www.shaastra.org/2010/main/events/coding/hack_fest

Hope to see you there!
"May the source be with you..."


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Regards
Sriram B