Hacktoberfest HackNight hosted at Sahyadri
15-Oct-2018
SOSC hosted Hacktoberfest HackNight in association with K-Tech Innovation Hub at Sahyadri to celebrate the month of open source with Hacktoberfest. The event was inaugurated by Mr. Shashank Krishna, Padma Shri 2019 (Nominee) and Director of Katmai Infotechnology Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru, followed by interaction with students regarding Smart India Hackathon. Dr. R Srinivasa Rao Kunte, Principal; Prof. Prakhyath Rai, Faculty Coordinator of Sahyadri Open Source Community and Mr. Arjun Suvarna, Chairperson of Sahyadri Open Source Community, addressed the crowd. The main event started off with a workshop followed by an 18-hour Hackathon where around 120+ students got together as teams and worked on projects under various domains like Education, Entertainment and Productivity to help innovate and enhance the current system. The projects were then open sourced through GitHub paving way for new open source contributors to be born. Mr. Manjesh P Shetty, Regional Coordinator of Mozilla and Alumnus of Sahyadri, was the Chief Guest of the valedictory function.
Winners under the domain Productivity were Chethan Kumar; Shravya Kadam; Shreya K G and Sanjana Gowda H C.
Winners under the domain Education were: 1st place – Akash; Likith R; Prayag Raj and Jaison Dsouza B, 2nd place – Hussain Muhammad Bilal; S Deepak Amin; Dhanush and Vaishak M S
Winners under the domain Entertainment: 1st place – Thanay; Swasthik Shetty; Rachitha Rai and Sanath Raj, 2nd place - Shanal Mohammad and Shibani Pinto.
