FOSS
FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOCIETY OF IIIT ALLAHABAD
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What Do We Do?
Code^300
Hack^300
Create^300
Design^300
Integrate^300
Work together^300
Are AWESOME^300
We
EVENTS
which makes you show your hidden talent
IIIT HACKS
Inter college hackathon
A night full of code and coffee.A great opportunity to learn and interact with fellow developers.Get to know that you can create something awesome in just 18 hours.
- Duration: 18 Hours
- Prizes: Certificate, Dev swags.
- Misc: Free and amazing food.
Opencode
An Opensource Event
Opencode is a month-long open source event.All undergraduates and postgraduates around the world can participate in developing open sourced projects and contributing in them.
Opencode aims to raise awareness about open source software development among the students and developers around the world.
- Date:January
- Duration: 1 Month
- Prizes: Cash Prize, Stickers, T-Shirt
Git Hero
You think you are master of git, come compete with other people who think the same and may the best person wins.All you have to do is solve issues and be the Hero!.
- Date:During Aparoksha
- Prizes: Cash Prize
Opportunities in Open Source
Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
Intern with Google
Google Summer of Code is all about
Contributing to organisations.
Working with them on their project.
Building a rapport.
And while doing all this, you will come across a lot of code.(Millions and Billions lines of code)
GSoC selection in 2017
Other Summer of Code Programs
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Season of KDE
Collaboration with the Acme team to design their mobile apps.It runs parallel with GSoC
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Mozilla Winter of Security
The Winter of Security (MWOS) is a program organized by Mozilla's Security teams to involve students with Security projects.
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Rails Girls Summer of Code
Rails Girls Summer of Code is an award-winning global fellowship program aimed at bringing more diversity into Open Source.Rails Girls Summer of Code is about helping newcomers to the world of programming further expand their knowledge and skills, by contributing to a worthwhile Open Source project.
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TOR Summer of Privacy
We partnered with various Netflix divisions to create a campaign for House of Cards.
FOSS Website is live at -
https://geekhaven.iiita.ac.in
Why WebSlides?
"We feel guilty as web designers when we have to use PowerPoint and Keynote. So we made #WebSlides."
IIITA^3000