OS Fest is a celebration of Open Source Resources and technologies which are often overlooked. It’s everything for a student who wants to gain experience and cherish the opportunity if they are Content Writers, Programmers, Developers, or even Designers. The Open Source movement is the reason that technology has developed at such a breakneck pace for the past few decades.
Hence a festival is celebrated dedicated specially for Open Source — to teach the fundamentals to the newbies who are setting their way in this competitive world and contributing to the Open Source Community. This will help the world remain Open for all generations, and the generations to come.
Date & Time: April 19, 2019 — 1000 to 1600 Hours
Venue: Babaria Institute Of Technology, Vadodara
Attendees: 80 Students
DevBytes, the Campus Club of Babaria Institute of Technology (B.I.T.S), collectively organized this wonderful joint gathering fest which led to gathering many innovative minds eager to contribute to Open Source.
Before this event, we discussed various aspects of the Fest and the necessities it carries. On the day of the event, when we reached the location, we realized that the organizers had kept their word for the preparations. We explored the campus too and had our coffee and breakfast.
Opening
The event kicked off with a brief introduction of their club DevBytes by one of their club co-founders Jainal, who described the salient features and motto of their club. The interaction session began with a few questions like:
- What is Open Source?
- What are the advantages of Open Source?
- What is GitHub?
Pranshu Khanna welcomed everyone and explained more about OS Fest and introduced the audience with the speakers.
Mastering Git & GitHub
Firstly we had our two GitHub Campus Experts Daniel & Harshil who discussed Mastering Git & GitHub. Since OS is all about collaboration, they decided to collaborate on this one as well! Participants were provided various cheatsheets of git commands so that it could be easily grasped. Being Campus Experts, they also shared their experience and all the advantages Git & GitHub offers to a Developer.
“GitHub is a web-based hosting service for version control using Git. It offers distributed version control and source code management functionality.”
Browser Extensions
After the wonderful session on Git, it was time for Browser Extensions — taken by Pranshu Khanna, who is a Mozilla Representative.
“An extension adds features and functions to a browser using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with access to specialized APIs.”
He taught the participants how to build a browser extension and how to do a pull request on GitHub. We received a lot of pull requests!
Flutter
After an amazing session, it was lunch! A further session was carried out by our Flutter Expert Parth, who is also a co-organizer at GDG Gandhinagar. He went on explaining the basics of Flutter and how easy it is to develop with.
“Flutter is an open-source mobile application development framework created by Google for Android, iOS, and Google Fuchsia.”
There were some amazing memes up his sleeves so the audience liked his session too.
Machine Learning
The further session was taken by our Machine Learning Expert Pratik, who taught the audience about Machine Learning, its importance, TensorFlow, and a lot more. He went on explaining how a machine can identify objects using the training model.
Meanwhile, among all these sessions, some participants were awarded swags and stickers for answering questions!
Open Source Contribution & GSOC
The fest advanced and it was time again for Pranshu Khanna. He went on explaining the importance of community, what its goals and advantages are, how one can contribute to Open Source, and how it can be helpful for learning and career growth. He also shared his amazing experience as a Mozilla Rep.
Later I and my friend Harsh went on explaining the audience about GSOC (Google Summer of Code) — how one can participate in it and what the advantages are.
Closing
The Fest ended with the felicitation of the winners in many categories.
It was a curtain for the event, but an ignition to a lot of innovative minds. That’s what an OS Fest aims — to ignite the young minds.
That’s all Folks! I’ll see you around!