SRM University-AP, Andhra Pradesh’s student-run Ennovab, an Entrepreneurship hub, is organizing an event on October 2: “Hacktoberfest 2020. ” During the event, the participants will be introduced to open source, GitHub, open-source collaboration, and open-source projects. An array of workshops and talks by prominent personalities from various industries is also arranged.

The Hacktoberfest 2020 is a month-long celebration of open source software run by Digital Ocean. It encourages participation in the open-source community, which grows bigger every year. Hacktoberfest 2019 has completed 61,871 challenges and had 483,127 pull requests opened. They also had 154,767 participating repositories from companies such as Intel, Circle CI, Vonage, Indeed, Progate, Freshworks, Cloudflare, Gitcoin, etc.

Students of SRM AP come from different backgrounds with a variety of skills. Hacktoberfest is a great resource for them to increase their participation in open source projects from technology and engineering companies, which advises young and talented students to contribute to the open-source repositories.

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SRM University-AP, Andhra Pradesh unifies to celebrate Gandhi Jayanti by inviting Dr T H Chowdary (Padma Shri awardee) to deliver an inspiring speech. He has been requested to explore “Mahatma Gandhiji’s Successes and Failures” during the webinar. Dr Chowdary is the Director of Center for Telecom Management and Studies, Hyderabad, along with being the Chairman of Pragna Bharati, Telangana & Andhra Pradesh. Further, he is the Convener of Bharatiya Dharma Rakshana Samakhya. A fellow of Tata Consultancy Services, Dr Chowdary has founded CMD, VSNL, and was the IT Advisor of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. His gamut of experience makes him the embodiment of knowledge who has been continuously contributing to the development of India. Join the session on October 2, 2020, at 12 noon to commemorate the Father of the Nation on his birth anniversary.

SRM University-AP, Andhra Pradesh invites all the students to participate in the debate “Is Gandhi still relevant in the 21st century?” on October 2, 2020, at 4 p.m. The teachings of Gandhiji is pertinent to the youth of India in the 21st century, guiding them to accomplish their goals, and encouraging them to pursue the path of compassion and kindness. The other notion might be that with the rapidly changing dynamics of the world, and the development of global networks in the modern age, Gandhiji’s philosophy loses its relevance to the youth. On Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, students of SRM AP are urged to discuss and explore the ideologies of Gandhiji and their relevance in the 21st century.

Department of Student Affairs organize “An insight to AIESEC” Department of Student Affairs, SRM University-AP, Andhra Pradesh has organized a webinar, where Aaditya Jain, Fourth Year, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Business Unit Head: AIESEC in Amaravati, will be hosting a session on “An insight to AIESEC”. As the world’s largest youth-run organization present in over 125 countries, International Association of Students in Economic and Commercial Sciences (AIESEC) provides cross-cultural global internships and volunteer exchange programmes to the youth. 6 students of SRM AP have successfully completed their internships through AIESEC in Greece, Egypt, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam to work on Website Development, IT, Business and Marketing, Explore, and Mechanical Projects. Students of SRM AP are encouraged to join the session on October 10, 2020, at 5 p.m. to know more about the internship programmes that would assist them to emerge as global professionals.