Delhi Hack Jam, September 2012

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Delhi Hack Jam, September 2012

Date

The event will start on 2012/09/14 12:00:00 AM till 2012/09/16 12:00:00 AM.

Location

New Delhi, India, APAC

Owner

This event is owned by kinshuksunil

Attendance

It is estimated that >1000 people will be at the event.

Description

The Summer Code Party in Delhi 2012.
15 Basic HTML5 workshops leading to 15 Advanced HTML5 workshops leading to a final Hackathon

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The Summer Code Party in Delhi/NCR is not just one event but a series of events beginning from August. We are working with Student reps in the region to organise workshops in their colleges to train students with HTML5 tools and then bring together these trained people in a final hack jam, where we will work on some real life problems and launch open source tools/projects around them.

These specifics are still being worked out. Till now, 10 student reps have signed up for organising the workshops in their colleges.


Basic Workshop

To be organised between Aug 01-15 2012.

Content:

  • Introduction to Open Web
  • Basic HTML
  • Basic CSS
  • Basic JS
  • Web Fundamentals
    • How Sites work
    • Protocols
    • Standards
    • Microformats

Expected participation per workshop: 100
6 Colleges signed up till now. Expected colleges to participate: 15
Total Expected Participation = 15x100 = 1500 (900 already)

Advanced Workshop

To be organised between Aug 16-30 2012

Content:

  • Mashups Workshop/Consuming APIs
  • Web App Architecture
  • Basics of Server Management
    • Uploading files to a web server
  • Introduction to Wordpress
  • Advanced JS

Expected participation per workshop: 50
6 Colleges signed up till now. Expected colleges to participate: 15
Total Expected Participation = 15x50 = 750 (300 already)

Hack Jam

A Two day hackathon to be organised in mid-september, where people trained and skilled through the above workshops will confluence to solve real life problems with web apps. The idea is to launch these projects so that the world can use them. We will collectively put in efforts to make sure that the requirements to make any project live are met.

Dates: Sep 14-16 2012 Venue: TBA

Expected Participation: 200-300.

Outreach

Total Participation

Participation in Basic Workshop: 1500
Participation in Advanced Workshop: 750
Participation in Hack Jam: 200

Total expected: 2450

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Planning

Organisers

  • Kinshuk Sunil, ReMo
  • Anuvrat Parashar, Amity
  • Devesh Batra, BVBCOE
  • Manish Goyal, MAIT
  • Mohit Chhabra, DITM
  • Shariq Murtuza, JMI
  • Vaidik Kapoor, JIIT
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