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Developer community

The broadest audience and most visible activity hub. The mission: turn students who "know programming" into engineers who ship real products, contribute to open source, and think in systems — not just syntax.

This is the planned activity framework for a full academic year. It describes what each chapter is set up to run, not a record of events already delivered.

All four domains and the annual calendar

activities / year
16
hackathons
2
OSS PRs / member
4+
coding touchpoint
Weekly

The year, quarter by quarter

11 planned entries across the academic year.

  1. Jan — Mar

    1. Git and OSS onboarding

      Mandatory session

    2. Weekly coding sessions

      Recurring

    3. First OSS PR drive

      Contribution sprint

  2. Apr — Jun

    1. Full-stack bootcamp

      4-week program

    2. System design sessions ×2

      Workshop

    3. Hackathon 1 (48 hrs)

      Competition

  3. Jul — Sep

    1. Open source sprint 2

      Contribution sprint

    2. Build in public showcase

      Community talk

    3. System design deep dives ×2

      Workshop

  4. Oct — Dec

    1. Hackathon 2 (flagship)

      Major competition

    2. Year-end project demo

      Showcase

Flagship event

Flagship — Twice/year

48-Hour Hackathon

Teams of 4 build a working product in 48 hours around a real problem statement. Judged by industry mentors on product thinking, code quality, and execution — not just the idea. Top 3 teams receive sponsor prizes and fast-track to internship interviews with partner companies.

  • Product thinking
  • Code quality
  • UI and UX
  • Technical execution
  • Pitch clarity

Activities

Weekly and recurring

  • Weekly coding sessions

    Weekly

    2-hour sessions alternating between DSA problem solving, project building, and code review. Senior members mentor juniors. Weekly consistency is the biggest predictor of placement success.

    • LeetCode
    • Code review
    • Peer programming
    • DSA

  • System design workshop series

    Monthly

    One system design problem each month, discussed and whiteboarded as a group. Design Twitter's feed, Zomato's delivery tracking, UPI payment flow. The most-feared interview round — practice is the only cure.

    • High-level design
    • Database choices
    • Scalability
    • Caching

  • SDE guest sessions and mock interviews

    Monthly

    First 30 min: engineer's story and advice. Last 30 min: 2 volunteers solve a problem on screen while the engineer gives real-time live feedback. The most anxiety-reducing activity you can offer.

    • Mock interviews
    • Live coding
    • Real feedback

  • Build in public — tech talk series

    Monthly

    Members present a project they built — what worked, what failed, what they learned. Builds confidence and normalizes failure. Record and post on YouTube — becomes your content marketing machine over time.

    • Project showcases
    • YouTube content
    • Technical speaking

Quarterly programs

  • Open source contribution drive

    Quarterly

    Community-wide push to contribute to real open source projects. Identify beginner-friendly issues on popular Indian OSS and global repos. A merged PR in a real project beats 10 personal projects on any resume.

    • GitHub
    • Good first issues
    • Indian OSS
    • PR reviews

  • Full-stack project bootcamp

    Twice/year

    4-week guided program building a complete app — React frontend, Node/Django backend, PostgreSQL database, deployed on Render. Members work in pairs. Output: a live URL to share with recruiters.

    • React
    • Node.js
    • PostgreSQL
    • Render deploy

Skill progression

  1. Level 01

    Coder

    Months 1 – 3

    • Git and GitHub fluency
    • DSA basics (arrays, trees)
    • First open source PR
    • Personal project deployed

  2. Level 02

    Builder

    Months 4 – 8

    • Full-stack app with database
    • 50+ LeetCode problems
    • Hackathon participation
    • System design basics

  3. Level 03

    Engineer

    Months 9 – 12

    • Production app with live users
    • 3+ merged OSS pull requests
    • System design interview-ready
    • Mentoring juniors in community

Tools used

Target outcomes