HacktoberFest 2019

We, the members of ACM PESUECC Student Chapter conducted a 12-hour 'Open Source Hack Night' in association with Hacktoberfest. Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software run by DigitalOcean in partnership with GitHub and Twilio. It is an event to celebrate open source contributions presented by Digital Ocean and DEV. Our main objective was to promote open source contributions and provide a platform for the participants to showcase their skills. The participants were also part of a GSoC (mentor and panel discussion partner) panel discussion and a brief on Open Source Projects by Mozilla (community partners) employees. Our food partner for the event was 'I am Vadapav.'

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• Venue: PES University EC Campus
• Duration: 12 hours (19th October 6PM - 20th October 6AM)
• Number of Participants: 160

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Keynote Speakers:

From Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

• Aniruddha Mysore
• Poulami Sarkar
• Naveen Naidu
• Ayush Jain

From Mozilla

• Soumya Deb
• Abhijeet Singh
• Vikram
• Abhiram Ravikumar

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The winners of our very first event were:

• Winner: Divya Satya from the department of CSE.
• 1st Runner up: Divyam Raj from the department of ISE.
• 2nd Runner up: Svsc Santosh from the department of CSE.