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Epiphany 11.0
Guide to Open Source
Epiphany has always stood out in the
“Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.”
open-for-all
– Jack Kornfield
contests
held
by
ACM
NIT-Surat.
But
for developers, it would
translate
to “open
source
contribution”.
We
conducted
October 16th coding
EPIPHANY 11.0
on
This is a pocket skill that every developer in the modern
. It was a competitive
world needs. Open source projects are those that are open
contest,
hosted
on
the
for
all
to
see,
modify
Codeforces platform, consisting of 8
Contributing
coding
developers’ profile.
problems,
with
a
maximum
to
such
and
distribute
projects
gives
as an
they
see
fit.
edge
to
the
time of 3 hours to solve and submit the
solution. We
had
around
400
This event held by ACM-NIT Surat on 10th September
registrations from several colleges all
2021
across
guide to contributing. Path and perks of contributing were
the
together
and
country,
who
competed
to
cash prizes of 3,000 Rs. ,
came
win
the
2,000 Rs.,
and 1,000 Rs. for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
provided
the
attendees
with
a
beginner-friendly
presented. Speakers were also able to share their own experience with
contributing, giving
the
attendees
the
complete picture.
positions respectively.
Various open-source programs were talked about in the Since
the
participating
was
event and the GSoC ‘21 experience was shared. Finally, to
large, the contestants were able to see
give the attendees hands-on experience with contributing,
their
a small session was held for the basic commands on Git/
real-time
rankings
crowd
offered
by
the platform to help them improve
GitHub.
their problem-solving concepts.
In the end, the attendees were well versed with basic Git Our team intends to work harder and
commands and were on the lookout for more open-source
to
programs to help practice their skills.
bring
students
more
such
after
the
events
to
success
the of
EPIPHANY 11.0.
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Times of SVNIT - December 2021
