[fedora-india] About Pre-requisite of Hackfest

[Kushal Das]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:07 PM, sankarshan <foss.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Giriraj Sharma
> <giriraj.sharma27 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The main idea and theme of hackfest would still remain Contribution to Open
>> Source for extreme beginners and how to get started[1] with it easily.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://blog.hackerearth.com/2014/03/how-to-get-started-with-open-source.html
>
> Sayan writes a fine post. If the participants in the hackfest need an
> introduction to Open Source, then it is less of a "hack" fest and more
> of a "here's how you can start, let's pick these easy topics to learn
> all the basic skills". I have a reasonable aversion to terming every
> event as a "hack" fest but that is probably because I am old.

Generally we do not call that a hackfest. I was thinking about writing
the same. But you already did with better words :)

Kushal
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