We are excited to announce the 4th edition of FOSS Hack, moving further on our goal of evangelising FOSS projects.
FOSS Hack 2024 aims to be way more engaging and inclusive, with no central iteration, but parallel hackathons happening all over the country. We are in discussions on how to execute this event at a larger scale paralelly, but a brief idea of what we’re planning is here.
Date - 27th & 28th July,2024
Venues
The hackathon will take place in multiple editions throughout. List of venues will be updated here.
We are expecting a minimum of 15 venues running the hackathon parallely, managed end to end by our FOSS Clubs, City Chapters and additional volunteer teams.
Cash Prize: ₹10L
What is FOSS Hack?
A yearly hackathon organized by FOSS United Foundation to promote Free and Open Source Software by bringing together professionals and students to build or extend FOSS projects. Every year we create a pool of ₹10L cash for the winners.
Purely online hackathon, with an option for interested folks to host local editions.
5-6 Confident locations for FOSSHack:Local → Chennai, Kerala, Bangalore, Pune etc.
Expanding to CityFOSS geo-localities.
24/36 hour duration at venues depending upon the venue.
Mentors: FOSS United will have a common pool of mentors accessible over telegram, and anyone from any edition can ask them for help. Local editions can get their local mentors onboarded too.
FOSS Hack 2024 website is live, accepting proposals for localhosts.
Venue criteria
50-200 seating space.
Budgeting transparency
Food and other arrangement communications.
Expression of Interest form will be posted this week, deadline to fill is 31st March.
Organising teams + requirements finalisation, vetting and then venue finalisation by 30th April
if we want start a local fosshack event Lepakshi AIC SKU campus
(as there are local colleges like SK univ, JNTU, SSSIHL, IIIT kadapa, IIT Tirupati and few private universities)
suggest guidelines on how we as sssgrameen can help
we recently conducted cybersecurity hackathon in partnership with Bugbase and we awarded the prizes
Help.on
we want to add a new project from business case to have an opensource app to.help sell rural.artisan and rural farmer produce via ondc
Announcing the FOSS Hack 2024 localhosts.
