anidos/awesome-mission

Goal & Mission of the community

Think -> Learn -> Implement

Mission

• To have a culture of open source participation, through hands on projects.
• More projects -> more collaboration -> win for all!

Why?

• Create an active development & research culture within our students
• Inspiration? Most IIT's and top colleges have their own dev band / groups. See this
• Active open source collaboration. Trust me, you will learn a TON if you just keep on contributing , hacking, and building OSS products on Github
• Lack of information. The thing that differentiates top colleges and us is solely that we lack right information at the right time. Lets start a community to bridge that down!
• Build a better portfolio, get hired / start own startups!

How?

• Join our Slack Group : https://iem-devs.slack.com
• To get an auto-invite, submit your email on https://iem-devs-slack.herokuapp.com/
• Be active in the Slack group, lots of ideas, projects, tips, trivia will be shared there.
• The group is divided into lot of #channels, join whichever you want. Channels serve as a purpose of relevant discussions
• Create a Github account, its a MUST!
• We have this github organisation through which we will create projects

Points

• We will not explicitly teach you about any language or framework, that part you have to figure out on yourself. Believe me, thats quite easy.
• We will roll out new project plans here, which we will try to implement as much as we can.
• Technology should not be a bar. Take up a flavour, hack on it, and if you find it cool, stick with it
• Mostly we will focus on the chief areas : Android, JS/Web/NodeJS, Python, Data Science & Machine Learning, but that is not exhaustive.
• Anyone can join, as long as they were / are students of IEM. No class distinction, interact freely with anyone.

Tips

• Follow Hacker News religiously. The best source of tech information, and top devs lurk there.
• Follow Github Trends, you will find awesome repositories to follow, fork & contribute
• Be thoroughly conversant with git
• Reduce FB usage, use Reddit instead. Tons of useful subreddits in Reddit

Bonus

• Interaction channel with the Alumni Network. We will try to onboard as much as Alumnis possible, both in Industry and Academia
• AMA - Ask Me Anything with Alumni's, Developers and Researchers! Check this space for more info.

Meetups

• Weekly meetups of the group and discussions related to tech and stuff
• Online Meetups started on 14th March, 2016.

Questions?

• Open an issue!

Disclaimer

• This is not affiliated with the college, its purely a student only participation, backed by Alumni Network
• All open source projects should be licensed properly (preferably MIT)