Hacktoberfest Hack Day Gwalior x ITM University
Hacktoberfest 2026
ITM University NH-44, Bypass Turari, Jhansi Road, Gwalior (M.P.) 475001 (INDIA) 4th Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh 475001 India
Event Description
🚀 Open Source Hack Day — Hacktoberfest 2026
BUILD. CONTRIBUTE. COLLABORATE.
Ready to go beyond tutorials and make something real?
Join us for a hands-on Open Source Hack Day where you'll learn how modern open-source development works, build with real technologies, collaborate through GitHub, and turn your ideas into working projects.
Whether you're making your first open-source contribution or already comfortable with Git and GitHub, there's a way for you to participate.
🧑💻 What You'll Experience
You'll work with real, organizer-maintained GitHub projects and learn the complete contribution workflow:
Explore → Understand → Build → Test → Pull Request → Review
Depending on your experience level, you'll tackle challenges involving:
Feature development
Bug fixing and debugging
Testing and reliability
Documentation
Security
Performance
Refactoring and code quality
The event is structured across five difficulty levels — Novice, Beginner, Competent, Proficient and Expert — allowing participants to take on challenges appropriate to their experience.
🔥 More Than Just Open Source Contributions
Hack Day also includes official MLH prize challenges, giving participants the opportunity to build and demonstrate projects using open-source and open-weight AI.
🏆 Best Open-Source AI Project
Build an original project where open-source or open-weight AI plays an important role.
💎 Best Use of Gemma 4
Build an innovative project using Google's Gemma 4 through the Gemini API.
These challenges are part of the official Hacktoberfest Hack Day program and have their own eligibility, submission and judging requirements.
🌱 What You'll Learn
By the end of the event, you'll have practical experience with:
Git & GitHub
Open-source contribution workflows
Issues, branches and Pull Requests
Debugging and testing
Code review
Software development practices
Open-source and open-weight AI
Building and presenting working projects
🎯 Who Can Participate?
Everyone.
You don't need to be an experienced open-source contributor. Whether you're completely new to GitHub, have made a few contributions, or are already an experienced developer, you can participate at a level suited to your experience.
Bring your laptop, curiosity and willingness to build.
🚀 Don't Just Learn Open Source. Experience It.
Explore real projects.
Solve real problems.
Build real things.
Make your contribution count.
BUILD. CONTRIBUTE. COLLABORATE.
📅 16 October 2026 | 🕘 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 ITM University
Who can attend?
Locations have different requirements for who can attend. This location is open to the following:
Additional Information
Follow this link to join our WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GOOPUbociXT0EUC7gQ8ibd?s=sw&p=a&mlu=4&iam=2
Links & Resources
Agent Skills Explained: What They Are, What They Aren't, and How to Use Them
Overview of the Agent Skill Open Standard and SKILL.md authoring.
Open link →A Developer's Guide to Open-Weight LLM API Integration
Guide to deploying and integrating large open-weight LLMs.
Open link →How to Run Google's Gemma 4 Locally with Ollama
Local setup and edge execution for models under 10B parameters.
Open link →Hermes Agent: A Practical Guide
Setting up and orchestrating workflows using open-source agent harnesses.
Open link →GitHub Hello World
New to GitHub? Learn the basics of repositories, branches, commits, and pull requests before Hack Day. Resource Link
Open link →GitHub Flow — Contribution Workflow
Learn the basic workflow for contributing to a project: create a branch, make changes, commit, and open a pull request.
Open link →GitHub Pull Request Quickstart
Learn how to create and work with pull requests — the core workflow you will use during Hack Day.
Open link →How to Review a Pull Request
Understand how code review works and how contributors respond to feedback on a pull request.
Open link →Hacktoberfest 2026
Explore Hacktoberfest and learn more about open-source participation, community events, and contributing to open source.
Open link →Hosted by
ITM University
ITM University is a multidisciplinary higher-education institution committed to fostering innovation, technology, entrepreneurship, and industry-oriented learning. Through its student communities and technical clubs, the university provides students with opportunities to collaborate, build real-world projects, contribute to open-source initiatives, and participate in technology-focused events and hackathon