GETSETFOSS: A 21-Days FOSS Event

GetSetFoss v1.0, was the first technical flagship event of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow, in collaboration with leading software developing platform Github. It commenced on 4thof November, 2019.

A month-long program starting in November for students to start their journey in the world of open source. With an objective to boost the open source skills of the students, the event provided an opportunity for the new developers to push their limits beyond their own expectations and bring the best out of their efforts. GetSetFoss is a month of open-source where programmers, designers and innovators code, design, learn and build solutions that tackle real-world problems.
It acts as a venue for self-expression, learning and creativity through open source. It doesn't matter if one is learning to code or is building his 100th app. There are lots of things to learn.

The only constraint is time.

With more than 60 projects, mentored by the Members and the Coordinators of the various wings of Axios, the technical club of college, witnessed immense participation with nearly 100+ registrations, 350+ merged PRs and 500+ PRs made in total.

The 21-days event concluded on 23^rd November with a great learning curve.

The Title winner and the Best scorer of GetSetFoss v1.0 were given to Mr. Yogesh Kumar and Mr. Nishan Singh respectively.

Other runner-up were as given the gift vouchers worth 10k.

1. Mr Lav Joshi (First runner up)

2. Mr. Moin Khan (Second runner up)

3. Mr. Ashutosh Yadav (Third runner up)

The closing ceremony was scheduled on 14^th December, 2019 with great joy and zeal. Prizes and goodies worth fifteen thousand were distributed among the winners.It was truly an enriching and full of learning experience and we are certainly looking forward to the v2.0 of GetSetFoss next year.

Author: Ashutosh Yadav

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