[WMF-outreach-staff] Invitation : Hackfest 2013, IIT Madras

[satyaakam goswami]

There is an upcoming event in Chennai , i can attend this event or someone
from chennai should  take it up the objective could be

1) Talk about Openhatch
2) fix some bugs.


-Satya
ps: i can do it provided my travel is taken care of
fossevents.in

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From: "Hackfest" <hackfest at shaastra.org>
Date: Nov 17, 2012 2:54 PM
Subject: Invitation : Hackfest 2013, IIT Madras
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Hi

It's time to get ready for Shaastra 2013, the annual technical fest of IIT
Madras. We, from the Shaastra team, proudly present to you, the FOSS event
at Shaastra: 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 have participated
in the Google Summer of Code.

What's new this year?
We have workshops on 4 renowned software projects this year : Tor, GNU
Mailman, KDE and Django; where participants will be mentored by experienced
developers (1 per project) who can guide them through their baby steps into
the FOSS world.

Registrations are open. Visit us at
http://www.shaastra.org/2013/main/#!events/hackfest

Hope to see you there!
Have fun hacking.
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