Announcing IndiaHacks 2016
IndiaHacks 2016, HackerEarth’s annual flagship event, aims to be the largest global gathering of developers. The event comprises of a series of hackathons and algorithmic challenges across nine different tracks.
Open Source is one of the tracks and aims to encourage open source contributions to various participating organizations. The track follows a model similar to Hacktoberfest, where contributions are measured by accepted pull requests and commits to open source software projects.
IndiaHacks 2016 and Fedora’s involvement
Fedora is one of the participating organizations this year. Ralph Bean helped in tagging various issues in the Project within the Fedora Infrastructure. The issues are tagged with difficulty levels: easyfix, medium, and hard, to help contributors in selecting which issues to fix.
The projects tagged for the event are:
- pkgdb2
- mirrormanager2
- anitya
- fedora-packages
- fedmsg_meta_fedora_infrastructure
- fedimg
- fmn.web
- fedora-tagger
- fmn.consumer
Get started
If you’re interested, register and head over to the Issues page in the projects listed above. You can start solving them right away! If you need help, check out the Infrastructure wiki page or drop in #fedora-apps channel on Freenode.
February 23, 2016 — 22:40
Why do we have a Mac as illustration on our community blog?
February 26, 2016 — 06:25
Hmmm, good catch – it probably could have used a better featured image. 🙂 I meant to look for something more suitable earlier today, I’ll see if I can find something better!
March 2, 2016 — 01:32
@Neville: This is fixed now thanks to dhanvi below. He found what seems like a pretty good alternative to me. 🙂
March 1, 2016 — 18:31
may be the best alternative would be https://unsplash.com/photos/5Ntkpxqt54Y or https://unsplash.com/photos/gN_nIUnjYJI don’t worry about the licence these are all under public domain 🙂 https://unsplash.com/license
March 2, 2016 — 01:27
Awesome dhanvi, these are excellent. I’ll use the first one since that was tagged for being taken in India. Thanks for taking the time to find a replacement image! 😉
March 2, 2016 — 16:49
No problem we are all in the commops team together 🙂