Blogging is something that I started couple of years many years back in 2004 and this blog was hosted on blogspot. Many of my readers, friends, colleagues share the question with me – What was the real motivation for starting a blog? There was no real answer in 2004~2005 since I was following the herd of early-stage bloggers and wanted to be counted in one of them 🙂 But over a period of time blogging transformed from hobby to passion and when you are passionate about something, you do it diligently and results would automatically come out!
It helped change my entire personality, my observation skills, reading habits and countless number of things. The real achievement was is I could motivate others to start blogging and connect with entrepreneurs/techies/students (and support them in whatever way I could via book reviews, app reviews, product feedback etc.) The most important decision of my personal life also has a deep-rooted connection with my blog!!
This article is not about listing my blogging achievements but to reiterate that Blogging can be a life-changer and a game-changer 🙂 Blogging, Competitive Coding, Social Media have changed the market landscape and these would much more important than ever before! If you are an engineering student and interested to get acquaintance about these traits then you should definitely attend Hello Hacker on September 24 (5:00~6:30 PM) in Bengaluru.
Hello Hacker : Listen, Learn, Connect and Execute
Hello Hacker is an event chapter to acquaint engineering students from all across Bengaluru about the following aspects:
- Competitive level programming
- Open Source Communities
- Modularisation
- Social Media &Â Blogging
Competitive level is now playing a crucial role in tech-hiring and this platform would answer all the lingering questions about it. There are expert speakers doers from each of these fields who would walk through their pros & cons. In a nutshell
Hello Hacker is an event to help students stay ahead of the curve, make them more employable, and get them connected with domain experts. It is intended to be a stepping stone for young minds to get acquainted with the diverse ways in which web related technologies can affect their lives.
Hello Hacker :Â Agenda, Speakers
The proposed topics for Hello Hacker are:
- How Open Source communities change lives.
- How to contribute to the open source communities.
- How relevant is blogging in today’s world for personal growth?
- Importance of Hacker Meets and Hackathons in students’ lives.
The speaker list is below:
Sayan Goswami (Decision Scientist, MuSigma Inc)
- Topic of discussion –Â Concept of Modularisation of code.
- Relevance – Understanding what it takes to write a good code and makes the student more employable.
Anirban Saha (Proprietor, Kolkata Bloggers)
- Topic of discussion – Blog as a Personal Branding tool.
- Relevance – Don’t blog to just earn money out of blogging; make it a personal branding tool & be ahead of the cut-throat competition.
Shreyas Narayan Kutty (Regional Coordinator, Mozilla Clubs)
- Topic of discussion – Requirement of community building among programmers, open source communities and how it could be used to engineer the products of the future.
- Relevance – To take open source to more people, encourage them to use it in their products for free with modification. It accelerates innovation.
Harishankaran K (Co-founder & CTO, HackerRank)
At HackerRank, he is responsible for the product delivery and scaling the core platform where developers from all over the world come to solve interesting challenges in different domains of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Functional Programming, etc) for fun, glory, learning, and jobs. Recruiters also turn to HackerRank in order to identify the best tech talent while saving massive amounts time in their recruitment process.
- Topic of discussion – Insights into Competitive Level Programming.
- Relevance – Competitive level programming & why it is required in the life of a Technocrat.
Hello Hacker : Venue, Registration
The venue for Hello Hacker is below:
JAAGA Startup, 5/1, Penthouse,6th Floor Rich Homes Apartment Richmond Road Bangalore – 560025 (Directions)
For registration, please visit Hello Hacker’s Registration Page
Hello Hacker :Â Team, Partners
Hello Hacker’s partners can be found here
There is an awesome team behind this initiative, details below:
Mozilla Clubs – Largest groups of Open source evangelists, Mozilla Clubs are a global network of community members that share Mozilla’s mission to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. Mozilla provides free training and resources to help clubs succeed and grow digital literacy in community spaces.
Hacker Rank – It is a company that makes a programmer discoverable to corporates ranking them evaluated on their coding skills thus adding value to the companies.
Kolkata Bloggers – It is the largest database of bloggers based in East India. In the last one year they’ve worked with TOI, NASSCOM, US Consulate General Kolkata, Facebook, International Kolkata Book Fair, Kolkata Literature Festival to name a few brands. They’ve conducted workshops in NIT Durgapur, IIT Kharagpur, St. Xaviers College Kolkata and other educational institutions.
Though I don’t fall in the student bracket, I would also be joining Hello Hacker and hope to share my thoughts on Blogging 🙂 Register for Hello Hacker and learn the Art from people who have “Been there, Done that“!!