Hacktoberfest Hackathon Event in Exeter!

To promote open source code culture in the University of Exeter, we are organising an open Hackathon, on Friday 6 October at the Streatham campus! The Hackathon is a full-day event where people get together and “hack”, i.e., write code. If you cannot commit for the full day, join nevertheless and stay less! Our purpose during this event is to write code that we can contribute to open source projects hosted on GitHub. In this way, we appreciate, and become part of, a huge community of open source projects shaping today’s landscape of technology and scientific computing.

The Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) will sponsor the event by providing morning and afternoon coffee/tea, as well as a midday lunch. The event will be coordinated by George Datseris, who has completed the last 5 Hacktoberfest events and will be helping newcomers with GitHub-related questions and etiquette. During the Hackathon, each participant will be working on their own chosen “project”. A “project” is an individual Pull Request contribution to an existing open source repository hosted on GitHub, such Python’s Pandas or Julia’s Differential Equations.

Registration:

If you are a fan of open source code, and want to promote a culture of openness in science and technology, please do not hesitate to join the Hackathon by completing this form to register for the event.