Coder Gals Hackathon
- 3 minsCoding is the alphabet of 21st century. It is the way we think and we write. This weekend the historical city of Prizren hosted its very first hackathon CoderGals with the intention of gathering girls from around Kosovo to work on open source projects and to contribute for an open society.
The event is the first that is supported from the Debian OS and the first of it’s kind to start the Debian OS series of meetings in Kosovo.
Organizers
Qendresa and Albiona
The 48h hackathon created many networks of people and engaged them on different projects.
CoderGals, the way we construct minds
CoderGals is the first hackathon of its kind and the only held in Prizren. I and my sister Qendresa with the intention of popularizing the computer programming organized the two day hackathon which gathered 26 girls from around Kosovo. Participants worked on groups of five contributing to existing open source projects and started projects from scratch. There was a variety of projects targeting mobile devices, web technologies, and online communication technologies.
Projects
AndroidGals
Worked on solving issues and improving the Vanilla music, an android audio player.
Spider Gals
Scraping FX exchange rates from public web sites, sending on an AMQP topic or into Database.
ARS team
Created a plugin for JSCommunicator using Laravel framework.
WORRKAT
Using PyQt to make a window that appears when somebody clicks a “tel:” URI and simulates a phone client.
Code breakers
Created a wordpress plugin for JSCommunicator.
We would like to thank all participants, mentors and sponsors for making it happen.
Sponsors
The event was sponsored from the US Embassy in Kosovo, Gjirafa50, Debian OS, Ipko, Cleveland Conuncil of World Affairs
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