Joint hackathon with China takes techies on ‘cloud 9’

Nagpur: Budding software engineers and industry experts from various engineering colleges and software firms got a feel of working on open source technology while participating in a hackathon organized by city based firm Click2Cloud and China.
They said the experience was unique, satisfying and exciting as they learnt to write software codes for open access. They interacted live with well-known software experts from different companies in China and shared their experience. The three-day hackathon was kicked off at China on Thursday. Though about 200 participants have registered for the event, on the first day only one hundred attended the exercise of writing codes for developing software for different sectors.

Prashant Mishra, CEO of Click2Cloud, said that the hackathon is an opportunity for enthusiasts of the two countries to contribute in the sector.

Mishra along with Fred Li — Huawei Opensource CTO, JianFeng Ding — Software Manager Intel, Ruan He — Chief Architect Tencent addressed the participants in this unique testing and learning exercise. Mishra was present in person while other executives joined online along with huge team from Shenzhen China.

The project, the teams are working on, are related to Openstack Cloud, Software Storage and Cloud Native Technology. These technologies have been used in hundreds of smart cities, safe cities and helping industries like telecom, health care, energy, education for years. There are many successful projects that go through three step process Sandbox, Incubation and Graduated Stage. He said since companies Like Microsoft, Alibaba, Dahua, HikVision and many others have already expressed their interest in being part of such initiative next year at Nagpur.

Business Head, Asia Pacific of Click2Cloud, Rupal Shirpurkar shared her thoughts about cloud market and partnership between OpenStack community that is represented by 82,000 developers across the world. She said that private telecom companies like Reliance are moving to cloud for their data storage like call record data, images of bills etc. In health sector, medical insurance companies are already seeking to be a part of the open source stacking. In education sector too, online tutorial application is also planning to move to cloud.

Shirpurkar said that open-source communities are non-paid self-drive technology dreamers, software developers and IT engineers. The digitization and cloud adoption are the future and AI, ML, Data Sciences are the skills for future. These types of events are changing the world every day in digital payment, health care automation, communication, public safety and many more areas.

From Nagpur Office engineering managers, Sapan Waswani — Open Source, Harshal Wadaskar — Cloud Brain, Archana Pathak — Open SDS, Tushar Dhote — Cloud Migration shared their thoughts with participants from different colleges and companies on use of open-source and how the technology can be enhanced.