PyCon India 2016 - Dev Sprints

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Have you tried contributing to any Open Source project but lost because of not getting mentorship? Or Start contributing to any Open source project is still in your TODO list? If so, Dev sprint is the best place for you. During Dev sprint, Mentors/Contributors of Open source projects guides participants from generating development build to submit a patch for a bug. It is best opportunity to experience the culture of Open source. People from newbie to experienced together contribute to project. During the session if you are stuck you can solve your confusions instantly from the mentors. From past experience, we found dev sprint projects are not limited for conference days but participants are still active contributor from past year's Devsprint.

If you are a contributor or maintainer of any Open source project place come forward. You submit your proposal for Dev sprint here. Project can be any interesting Open source project based on Python. You should have enough contributions to the project. Your responsibility will be to help your team for setting up their developer environment, list out beginner friendly bugs and guide them on any problems. Deadline for submitting call for proposals is 15th of September, 2016. Don't hesitate to submit proposals Pycon India is Open for everyone.

This time we are continuing the Dev sprint for whole three days during the conference. Below are the schedule

  • Day-I: 23rd September, 2016 - Full day
  • Day-II: 24th September, 2016 - 5.00 PM to 9.00 PM
  • Day-III: 25th September, 2016 - 5.00 PM to 9.00 PM