Events

Technical Events

Code Carnival

Poster Design and

Fictional Story Writing

FOSS Fever

The FOSS CLUB successfully organized an event on March 12th, 2024, consisting of three rounds: the Mind Marathon, Rush to Master, and QR Hunt.

🧠In the Mind Marathon, participants as a team of two answered 40 MCQ questions on open-source software within 20 minutes, with 8 teams shortlisted based on scores and time management.

🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️The Rush to Master round required teams to learn Blender, a 3D modeling software, within an hour, with 3 teams advancing based on performance.

🔍🏆In the final QR Hunt round, participants scanned QR codes to solve riddles and find locations on campus, with winners determined by task efficiency.

Expert Talks

GoLang

On September 16, 2023, the FOSS Club orchestrated an enlightening expertise talk on the GO programming language, featuring distinguished MCA alumnus Mohammed Yaseen Harun, presently a senior software engineer at Oracle Centre Bangalore. Yaseen, part of the 2016-19 batch, shared insights from his four years of industry experience, unraveling the multifaceted facets of Go Language.

The discourse explored Go’s foundations, modeled after C with modern features. Endorsed by Google, Go found application in major tech platforms. Yaseen highlighted key features, applications in various fields, and strengths like simplicity, automatic garbage collection, fast compile time, and strong typing.

Trade-offs, including sacrificing some runtime safety for performance, were acknowledged. Yaseen delved into core concepts—control statements, functions, variadic functions, anonymous functions, main and init functions, the defer keyword, methods, arrays, slices, and more. The session concluded by emphasizing Go’s pivotal role in the programming language landscape, seamlessly blending efficiency and contemporary features for a potent and accessible coding platform.