Hackathon hosted by Mozilla Campus Club of KCG College of Technology

Report on Hackathon hosted by Mozilla Campus Club of KCG College of Technology A 24 hour coding contest (Hackathon) was organized by the Mozilla Campus Club of our college on 18^th and 19^th March 2017. The event started on 18^th March by 9.00 am with an inauguration in the presence of the Principal and Vice Principal of the College. Mr.Karthikeyan, Full Stack Developer, Zarget Tech, Chennai, Campus Advisory Committee board member for Mozilla Campus club programme, Localization Head of FSA & Firefox add-ons feature board member was the main guest. The Principal greeted the participants and thanked the participants from other institutions for the efforts taken in taking part in the event. The Vice-Principal spoke encouraging words and appreciated that a hackathon of this kind is a new initiative in the KCG campus. Earlier, one of the student members of the club Ms. Srinithi gave the welcome address and Head of the Department, Dr. M. Krishnamurthy facilitated and wished the participants a fruitful stay during the event. Finally Mr. Praveen Joe, Faculty advisor explained the need for such a programme and presented the objectives and agenda for the 2 days. The event started with an orientation for about three hours. Vishwaprasad, Software Engineering, Zoho Corporation, Chennai & Khaleel Jageer, Chennai, FSA (Firefox Student Ambassador) Spokes person gave the training in the forenoon session. The contest stated by 1. 00 pm and three technical events namely Localization, Web VR and Web Extensions were conducted in parallel in 3 labs respectively. Localization is the process of translating software user interfaces from one language to another and adapting it to suit a foreign culture. They are for developers and all contributors. WebVR provides support for exposing virtual reality to web apps, enabling developers to translate position and movement information from the display into movement around a 3D scene. Web Extensions event deals with developing browser add-ons for cross-browser systems. Participants intend to extend the APIs which are compatible with Google Chrome and Opera and make it compatible with Mozilla also.   The event continued over night and came to an end by the next day afternoon (19^th March 2017) around 1.00 pm. 68 students from our college and other institutions took part in the event and 14 students of the FSA Club from CSE department coordinated the programme, 2 faculty mentors Mr. Praveen Joe and Ms Hema and 3 trainers facilitated the programme. The HoD distributed the prizes and certificates to the winners and other participants. Students and participants were found very active and highly motivated and had a thrilling experience to learn in a homely ambience staying round the clock in KCG Campus. Congratulations to all Winners!!!