Looking forward to a great year ahead!

[Ranveer Aggarwal]

Hello all!

Since my freshie year, I’ve seen WnCC grow. I’ve seen the community become bigger and the discussions going better. The quality of content on our group keeps getting better by the day and this is all thanks to our past managers and all of you.

Me and Manish have this huge legacy left to us by our previous managers and we’ll try our best to continue it and take the community further.

One thing that we saw this year was an immense response from Freshies. Freshies, who are generally intimidated from code in the beginning broke free of that fear and came forward and participated enthusiastically in almost all our events. Seniors are generally known to lose their enthusiasm once they become seniors, but this year, we had a lot of active participation from people of all batches. We’ll try to keep this enthusiasm going and get more and more people to participate in our events and make the community bigger.

Looking forward to a great tenure!

PFA my manifesto with this mail.

Ranveer Aggarwal

[Shahzad Wakeel]

Best wishes ! 

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[Manish Goregaokar]

Here's my manifesto. A couple of things have changed since I made it, though:

• The ITSP coding session was not possible given the time constraints, however we are individually discussing projects with teams in depth and trying to get them to do as much research as possible in sem.
• One event that I did not put in the manifesto (since I had not yet talked with everyone about this) was the open source inter-iit. This will be similar to the bug squash event held by Anil two years ago, in that there will be a leaderboard of patches uploaded, but at an inter-iit level (with individual and iit wise leaderboards).  I have already talked with people from IITD, IITJ, IITKGP, and plan to discuss this with others. The "intro to contributing to open source" event will be held before this starts. The rationale is that there is a large rivalry between the iits, we can utilize that to get people involved in open source. This will make more people come for the introductory session, and will increase the number of FOSS participants from the insti.
• Another event is the programmer meetup (not kept in manifesto for similar reasons, I have to discuss this with many people to get an idea of feasibility). Places like Pune, Kolkata, and Bangalore have a lot of large scale meetups like GNUnify, however, this is less prominent in Bombay. I intend to discuss this with GDG/Intel/Mozilla and see if we can have a GNUnify-style event (smaller scale, though), where both IITians and outside-junta are invited. It will mostly be funded, with speakers coming from the above mentioned organizations.
• The Firefox appathon/core dev setup may no longer be possible at the scale of last year. I recently was in a Mozilla India discussion where they're thinking of scrapping such events and replacing them with a different kind of event. We can still hold the event ourselves, but we won't be able to get as much reps support as there was last time. More updates on this later

My personal focus as WnCC manager is to improve the state of open source in the institute. We have a lot of awesome programmers here, but not as many FOSS participants* -- which is sad, because FOSS is generally easy to participate in once you get past that initial intimidation. I'm hoping to kickstart a community of open source participants in the insti.

(Ranveer's personal focus is competitive coding, see his extensive manifesto for details)

As for freshies, last year the club managed to get a pretty good response from freshies. The club convener applicants all had a lot of constructive input on these, and we plan on letting the conveners plan and handle these events as much as possible, since they were at the receiving end last year, and they know what can be improved. 

Input appreciated!

Thanks,

Manish Goregaokar

*By this I'm talking of people who submit patches to large open source projects. Most do collaborative open source coding via github/etc, but few participate in larger communities. Also, I'm restricting myself to the BTech community when I say this. There are quite a few active PGs, but I'm not entirely certain about the level of FOSS in the PGsphere.

-Manish Goregaokar

[Chandra Maloo]

Awesome manifesto..!!
We will strive towards it's fulfilment to the best :)

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Shahzad Wakeel <shahzad...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Regards,
Chandra Maloo,
Computer Science and Engineering Dept.
IIT Bombay.
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