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CODEHEAT RUNS FROM SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2018 TO FEBRUARY 1ST, 2019

{In the Heat of the Code}

Build up your developer profile with FOSSASIA and win a trip to our summit in Singapore from March 14 – 17, 2019

700+ participants

700 registered in the Codeheat contest 2018/19 and learnt how to participate in the FOSSASIA developer community.

2000+ merged pull requests

More than 2000 pull requests were merged during the contest. Participants also submitted scrum reports, wrote blog posts and created entirely new projects in the FOSSASIA community.

Mentors are developers, engineers, university students, professors, and generally contributors who love to share and be a part of our open source community. They help creating better software for a better and just world.

Grand Prize Winners

Shubham Gupta

Developer at FOSSASIA

Harshit Khandelwal

Developer at FOSSASIA, LNMIIT Jaipur

Aakash S. Mallik

Contributor at FOSSASIA

Finalist Winners

Pranav Kulshrestha

Developer at FOSSASIA

Shridhar Goel

Developer at FOSSASIA

Aditya Srivastava

Developer at FOSSASIA

Yogesh Sharma

Developer at FOSSASIA

Samagra Gupta

Developer at FOSSASIA and IIIT- Vadoadra

Shubham Kumar

Developer at FOSSASIA

Raj Vaibhav Dubey

Developer at FOSSASIA

FOSSASIA Projects

Open Event

Make Open Event useful for events and meetups and help to release a successful event management and ticketing tool for communities.

Phimp.me

Phimp.me is an image applications for Android that does not miss out on features. Help to make the app more stable and support more social accounts in the app.

SUSI.AI

Apart from progressing on the issues on the different SUSI.AI repositories, we want to focus on the development of the chat app and Skills editor. Another goal is to plugin SUSI to all kinds of web applications.

Susper Search

Susper is a distributed Peer to Peer search engine using Yacy and Elastic Search. The front-end uses Angular JS and Material design.

Meilix

Meilix is a beautiful Linux distribution based on Debian and lubuntu using LXQT and other lightweight applications. With the Meilix generator users can generate their own customized Meilix version for events, kiosk systems or home use.

PSLab

The FOSSASIA Pocket Science Lab is a combination of an Open Source hardware and software applications for desktop and mobiles. The goal is to enable students and anyone interested in Citizen Science to conduct experiments.

Yaydoc

Yaydoc is a documentation generator for Git and GitHub projects generating a complete website with search capabilities and automatic deployment on each merged pull request.

Badgeyay

At every event the same question comes up “how to print out badges”. There are a number of proprietary websites out there, by why not create our own automatic badge generator for events?

Badge Magic

Badge Magic is an Android app to control LED name badges using a Bluetooth connection.

About “In the Heat of the Code”

In the Heat of the Code is a coding contest for FOSSASIA projects on GitHub.

The contest runs until 1st February 2019. Grand prize winners will be invited to present their work at the FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit in Singapore from March 14th -17th 2019 and will get up to 600 SGD in travel funding to attend, plus a free speaker ticket.

Our jury will choose three winners from the top 10 contributors according to code quality and relevance of commits for the project. The jury also takes other contributions like submitted scrum reports and technical blog posts into account, but of course awesome code is the most important item on the list.

Other participants will have the chance to win Tshirts, Swag and vouchers to attend Open Tech events in the region and will get certificates of participation. Sign up here now

Jury

Mario Behling

Founder SUSI.AI/FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA Founder

Michael Christen

Founder SUSI.AI

Mentors

Quan Nguyen

Developer at FOSSASIA

Andre Rebentisch

Senior Developer

Saptak Sengupta

Developer at FOSSASIA

Hon Nguyen

Developer at FOSSASIA

Lorenz Gerber

Developer at FOSSASIA

Tarun Kumar

An Open Source Aficionado

Madhushanka Padmal

Developer at FOSSASIA

Chirag Wadhera

Developer at FOSSASIA

Isuru Abeywardana

Developer at FOSSASIA

Nicco Kunzmann

Free Software Enthusiast

Areeb Jamal

Developer at FOSSASIA

Dilpreet Singh

Developer at FOSSASIA

Abhinav Khare

Developer at FOSSASIA

Anup Kumar Panwar

Developer at FOSSASIA

Chetan Kaushik

Developer at FOSSASIA

Akshat Garg

Developer at FOSSASIA

Bhavesh Anand

Developer at FOSSASIA

Jogendra Kumar

Developer at FOSSASIA

Nikit Bhandari

Developer at FOSSASIA

Saurav Vishal

Developer at FOSSASIA

Harsimar Singh

Developer at FOSSASIA

Anshuman Verma

Developer at FOSSASIA

Ritika Motwani

Developer at FOSSASIA

Sanskar Jethi

Developer at FOSSASIA

Mohit Kumar

Developer at FOSSASIA

Akshat Jain

Developer at FOSSASIA

Praveen Ojha

Developer at FOSSASIA

Arundhati Gupta

Developer at FOSSASIA

Harshit Kedia

Developer at FOSSASIA

Saurabh Srivastava

Developer at FOSSASIA

Harsh Patel

Developer at FOSSASIA

Abhinav Raj

Developer at FOSSASIA

Divyanshu N Singh

Developer at FOSSASIA

Mohit Sharma

Developer at FOSSASIA

Praduman Singh

Developer at FOSSASIA

Priyanshu Khandelwal

Developer at FOSSASIA

Timeline

The contest begins at 9:00 AM (SGT/GMT+8) on September 10, 2018 and runs until 11:00 PM (SGT/GMT+8) on February 1, 2019. Participants should take the time to read through the contest FAQ and familiarize themselves with the introductory information and Readme.md of each project before starting to work on an issue.

September 5, 2018

Official Announcement of “In the Heat of the Code”

Heat of Code officially announced.

September 5, 2018
September 10, 2018

Coding Starts

September 10, 9:00 AM (SGT/GMT+8)

September 10, 2018
Sunday Weekly, 2018/19

Scrum Update and Social Media Update

Participants provide a weekly scrum to the mailing list, and update on their Twitter and Facebook by Sunday 10AM local time.

Sunday Weekly, 2018/19
15th Every Month, 2018/19

Monthly Blog Post

Contributors submit a monthly blog post as a Google Doc and post it on the Codeheat spreadsheet. After approval participants will receive access to the FOSSASIA blog to post it. This process should be finalized by the 15th each month starting in September. The posts should focus on features and technologies of projects.

15th Every Month, 2018/19
Before November 1, 2018

First Developer Meetup Took Place and Screencast of Project Submitted

Contributors organize the first outreach event or meetup before November 1st. They also submit a screencast with regards to their work and publish it on the FOSSASIA YouTube channel after having it reviewed by mentors.

Before November 1, 2018
15th November 2018, 3:00 PM (SGT)

Google Hangout with Participants and Mentors

Participants provide a Gist with work outcome, screencast of their project and a presentation on Google Docs until January 22nd, 2019, 23:00 (SGT/GMT+8).

15th November 2018, 3:00 PM (SGT)
Before January 22, 2019

Participants submit Gist, second screencast and presentation on Google docs.

Participants provide a Gist with work outcome, screencast of their project and a presentation on Google Docs until January 22nd, 2019, 23:00 (SGT/GMT+8).

Before January 22, 2019
Before January 22, 2019

Second Outreach Event Organized by Participants

Contributors organize the second outreach event or meetup before Before 22nd January 2019.

Before January 22, 2019
February 1, 2019

Coding Ends

Until February 1, 2019, 23:00 (SGT/GMT+8).

February 1, 2019
February 5, 2019

Winners and finalists are announced. Contributors receive certificates and Tshirts.

Announcement of Winners and Finalists on February 5, 2019, 23:00 (SGT/GMT+8). All participants with at least 5 pull requests merged will receive a digital certificate afterwards. Contributors with 10 PRs will receive a Tshirt (if postal service is feasible).

February 5, 2019
March 14-17, 2019

Grand Prize Winners participate in FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit

The FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit takes place from March 14-17, 2019 in Singapore.

March 14-17, 2019

Frequently Asked Questions

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