Entrega 2016 - feedback from the teams
The first Women Hackathon for the new academic year was conducted at College Of Engineering , Munnar on 19,20 and 21 of August,2016. The partcipants were around 16, second and final year girl students, from the college spanning different departments like Computer Science , Electronics and Communication and Electrical Engineering.
The workshop started on 19 th with an introductory session on free software. The idea of freedom in software as a form of knowledge was discussed in an interactive manner. The students were familiarized with the various freedoms users get to enjoy with a free software and the concept of copyleft.An initial skeptical audience soon found it comfortable with the software freedom as a way of sharing and multiplying the knowledge. After a break for lunch, a game was conducted to challenge students in building opinion on an idea independently, expressing the opinion and changing them if needed. A session on GNU/Linux followed, with a step-by- step procedure to install a Linux based operating system (Debian).
Form to enroll to associate with SPACE for FOSS based interests
Hackathon Feedback form
ICFOSS in association with SPACE (Society for the Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment) intends to conduct Hackathon, a 3 – day residential workshop for college students from all over Kerala during 2-4 September, 2016 at ICFOSS Office .
The Deshabhimani newspaper of July 3 rd 2016 carried an article on empowering Adivasi youth to document their own language, history and culture and share them with the world by building a website, which is to be launched next month. This is part of a project funded by SBI Life at MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), where Adivasi youth in the 18-35 age group are trained in web designing by SPACE.
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Day Two started with a hands-on session on machine learning led by Arun Joseph. He introduced some of the available machine learning library such as OpenCV and scikit learn. Using Python-OpenCV, participants attempted to create a digit classifier.
A Machine Learning workshop, a joint venture of SPACE and ICFOSS, began today, with 22 students from all over Kerala participating. The workshop chiefly comprises 4 sessions, out of which two were completed today. The morning session was taken by Arun M, who provided an introduction to Machine Learning in the perspective of free software. The afternoon session was led by Sachin, who spoke about the principles behind machine learning.
SPACE is forming a learning group on 'Machine Learning and Free Software', at which enthusiasts from the industry and educational institutions are participating. We are planning our first meeting on July 3rd. Prior to that we have planned a 2-day machine learning workshop for beginners on July 1st and 2nd.
The workshop will start on July 1st at 10:30 a.m. Anyone who is interested can participate. It mainly comprises 4 sessions:
i. Introduction to ML, classification and regression
ii. A sample classification/regression problem. Hands on
iii. Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Challenges in Malayalam
iv. Doing some examples in NLP
Instructions for attendees
1,Workshop attendees should have a basic knowledge of GNU/Linux operating systems (Ubuntu, Mint, Debian etc).
2,Attendees should bring their own Laptops with any GNU/Linux-based OS installed. (If you don't have a Linux laptop, one will be provided on request)
3,Every participant must register for the event. Registration form will be closed on June 29th.
