About
Kharagpur Winter of Code is a 5-week long online program for students who are new to open source software development. The program not only helps students to get involved in open source, but also prepares them for many open source summer programs; Google Summer of Code being one of them.
Why KWoC?
Intro to Open Source
KWoC provides a great opportunity to get acquainted with Github along with Git commands and contribute to open source efficiently. Brush up your coding skills
If you love coding and want to learn about software development then KWoC helps you to get a glimpse of it and gives you a head start.
Prepare for GSoC
With KWoC, you get to know about how to select a project, interact with mentors and learn all other things that prepare you in the best way for the next GSoC.
Exciting goodies
To motivate more Open Source contribution, top 5 selected contributors will receive swag kits from Postman.
Timeline
25 November 2022
Registrations for both Students And Projects Begin
6 December 2022
Coding Period starts
12 December 2022
End of Project Registration
17 December 2022
End of Student Registration
20 December 2022
Mid Evaluations
4 January 2023
Coding Period Ends. However, we encourage you to keep contributing to the projects
11 PM IST, 9 January 2023
Deadline to submit End evals report(for students who have cleared Mid Evals)