ICFOSS
intends to conduct a Hackathon, 3 – day residential camp for college
students from all over Kerala during 2-4 September, 2016 at ICFOSS
Office, in association with Society for the Promotion of Alternative
Computing and Employment (SPACE). We would ensure that 50% of the
participants will be women. There will be a selection process to
identify the enthusiastic students for the programme.
Most of the Engineering students are not aware of the
usefulness of FOSS and the FOSS based tools created under it.Inorder to
familiarise them with the nuances of FOSS, we are conducting this as a
train the trainer kind of program. The trainers who get training from
this programme can be used as ambassadors to impart the ideas to their
friends in their respective colleges. There will be classes on Free
Software, Programming, Expert talks, Film Screening on Free Software,
Interactive gun games etc. in this programme. We hope that there will be
more bonding between the students to transfer the ideas of Free
Software at the end of this programme.
Food, accommodation and travel expenses of these selected students will
be met by ICFOSS. They will be provided with a participation
certificate.