[Ilugc] Hackfest@Shaastra2010: From IIT Madras
- From: kirtibr@xxxxxxxxx (Kirtika Ruchandani)
- Date: Mon Sep 6 20:29:47 2010
Hello Sir,
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
nice to know there is an IITM LUG - please tell us more about it.
My apologies for the latency in responding. We have a pretty active LUG here
at IITM thanks to the efforts of about a dozen or so people. We have
student-developers in the Gnome, KDE and OpenEmbedded communities, some of
them being Google Summer of Code students. We also have had
debian-developers amongst us, who are now alumni and grad students in the
US. The Hackfest or FOSS conference event as it was earlier called was
introduced in our technical festival in 2008, and was extremely successful
in the 2008 and 2009. Through the talks, BoFs, workouts and hack-nights held
during the event, we were successful in motivating students to contribute in
the long-term to projects like Sugar, ffmpeg and Gnome. Some of them went to
do a GSoC the year after they attended Hackfest.
This year we took an initiative to ensure that hacking culture passes on to
the newer generations at IITM - a mini-summer of code where seniors guided a
bunch of juniors in writing open source applications which could be useful
to Linux newbies. We call it the "Shaastra Distro" as we plan to package
these applications on top of Ubuntu, though they will be available
stand-alone as well.
We have not been regular in holding LUG sessions (we have about 4-5 per
semester, a number which needs improvement), but we hope to rectify that
soon.
Regards,
Kirtika
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