FOSS Hack 2020
2020-09-12..2020-09-13
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Note | 12m | |
Online hackathon announces up to ₹10L prize and repeatedly urges teams to submit a final video demo, register via the event form and join Telegram for updates… | ||
| Right the docs | Vipul Gupta | 01h 01m |
Argues for concrete fixes to open source documentation and gives actionable artifacts: installation and configuration steps, an onboarding checklist and a… | ||
| The Path to Mastery | Anand Chitipothu | 55m |
Covers concrete milestones: building web.py and Infogami, creating an 8085 simulator in C/Turquoise, writing a Java serialization format still used after 15… | ||
| Office Hours | 02h 16m | |
Claims an open source prototype that uses CCTV-based distance estimation and simple microcontrollers to measure crowd spacing, send real‑time alerts and log… | ||
| Office Hours | 32m | |
Prototype of a teaching platform claims to stitch real-time handwriting sync with video calls, assignment submission and PDF download, built as an Android app… | ||
| If you're techie, your homepage should be GitHub, not Instagram! | Vinit Shahdeo | 50m |
Argues that a techie’s homepage should be GitHub not Instagram and gives concrete steps: start by fixing a typo or filing bug reports, post even tiny projects… | ||
| Careers with Free/Libre and Open Source Software | Shakthi Kannan | 01h 10m |
Explains how concrete contributions on GitHub/GitLab and public change requests serve as verifiable proof employers inspect, and shows practical entry points… | ||
| The story behind Hoppscotch | Liyas Thomas | 01h 11m |
A browser‑based API request builder launched from a 3–4 hour prototype on Aug 21, 2019 that wakes to 100+ GitHub/Twitter notifications and scales to 365,000… | ||
| Investing in FOSS | Pranay Yadav, Prayank Swaroop | 16m |
Claim: investors back OSS businesses that convert free projects into paid support and managed services, with unit economics that hit payback in about 120 days… | ||
| FOSS@CRED | Srinivas Iyengar | 07m |
Describes CRED’s concrete push to reuse open-source adoption across engineering, listing two customer-facing efforts — a document-scan flow and a credit-card… | ||
| Open Source in the world of Fintech | Venkat V | 23m |
Razorpay runs 15–20k requests/sec with about 70 million payment requests in July, a 0.02% fraud rate, hundreds of microservices and 1500 deployments/month. The… | ||
| Getting Started Contributing | Karan M V | 15m |
Open source on GitHub is already global and growing: projects average contributors from 41 countries, and between Oct 2018–Sep 2019 each of the top 50 projects… | ||
| Cloud kubernetes Native Applications | Kamesh Sampath | 26m |
Shows OpenShift as an enterprise Kubernetes distribution built on Kubernetes and OKD, with hardened images, automated routes/ingress, and frequent upstream… | ||
| Getting Started with Open Source | Jaskirat Singh | 45m |
Explains concrete first steps: learn Git and GitHub, read the README LICENSE CODE OF CONDUCT, scan repos by language, check license before contributing, pick… | ||
| Building ElasticRun’s Network with Tech | Aldrin Oliveira | 19m |
ElasticRun describes growing a physical network using free and open source software to power operations: core stack runs on Frappe and ERPNext, an app-based… | ||
| The FOSS Journey | Prssanna Desai | 14m |
Frappe runs a fully transparent, flat organization where company decisions and salaries are voted on in a weekly forum and development centers on a… | ||
| FOSS | Peeyush Gupta | 14m |
DigitalOcean focuses FOSS culture by building an internal platform to unlock technology that helps customers and lowers onboarding friction, funds and supports… | ||
| FOSS Hackathon | Rushabh Mehta, Kailash Nadh | 03m |
FOSS Hackathon is a two-day online event on 12th & 13th Sep 2020 offering Win up to ₹10L to teams that build or extend Free and Open Source Software; the… | ||
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