Foss FEST 2025: International Hackathon
Participate in Foss FEST 2025, the International Hackathon,
FREE REGISTRATION
On multiple locations worldwide, libraries, companies and Universities in India, Cambodia, Germany, Namibie, The Netherlands and the UAE students will participate on a plethora of projects where they compete to build the best solution. Your team, your university at your own location, connected by open source technology.
21 - 22 February
Groups of international students can participate one or both days. The event will be coordinated by OS-SCi in conjunction with foss partners and universities. During the event there will be live Masterclasses, which are streamed. Each day there's a prize of 2000 euros for the best team result.
Confirmed Masterclasses:
- "The Role of Open Source in Digital India" Prof dr. K.N.B. Murthy
- UBports, Ubuntu Touch development, Paul Hortola
- Odoo, OCA, Richard Varghese M.Sc
- QXIP, Lorenzo Mangani
- Linux Development, ing. Jeroen Baten
- "From Monolith to Microservices and Beyond", Masking Technology, ing. Peter van Vliet
- Kubernetes, SUSE, Divya Mohan
- Proxmox, Ronald Otto
- Building and extending your own digital collaboration platform with Nextcloud, Jos Poortvliet
- The Perfect Storm, NIS2 Open Source First in the EU, Emiel Brok
- The importance of Open Source Education, Ir. Erik Mols
Why Participate as a Student/Developer?
- Win up to 4000 euro in cash
- Interact with the FOSS community
- Build your reputation as a programmer / hacker
- Get recognized by the FOSS community
- Grants for your FOSS project
- Sign up as a mentor to help other participants
Why Participate as a University?
- Show the World that you are open to Innovation and try to adapt your Curriculum to modern developments
- Offer your students the possibility of better future placements in Open Source
- Get in touch with the international Open Source Communities
Why Sponsor as a FOSS project/community/company
- Get introduced to young developer talent for your FOSS project
- Setup relations with developers
- Find interns for your FOSS project
Rules in a nutshell
- Evaluation will be done on basis of code commit during the course of the event
- Your project must have a valid FOSS license
- The cash prize will be split among the winners at the discretion of the jury
You can register by pressing the Register button. Please fill in the name field, not only your name, but also the name of your team with postal code. Next, we need your email address.
participants
countries
universities
expected spectators
sponsors
Platinum
Sponsors
MonkeyTail Group
BSBI
Gold
Sponsors
Canna
Silver
Sponsors
FossTech Projects
Bronze
Sponsors
QXIP, Tuxis