Hi Team,<br>
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Greetings from team Codefest!<br>
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The<b> Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India</b> is proud to present the fifth installment of its highly anticipated coding festival, Codefest, that will be held from 7th-9th September 2018.<br>
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<b>A look back at Codefest'17:</b><br>
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   <li> 11,872 unique visitors</li>
   <li> 10,267 registrations on the Codefest Website</li>
   <li> 10,568 participants</li>
   <li> 97 countries</li>
   <li> INR 475,000 Prize Money</li>
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<b>About Codefest'18</b><br>
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With a plethora of events covering all disciplines of Computer Science, Codefest has received creditable appreciation and respect in the past. Events of Codefest have been conceptualized keeping in mind the recent trends in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Security in addition to the conventional Competitive Programming and Application Development events.<br>
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This year, we are dedicated to step forward and carry on its legacy by introducing more innovative and challenging events.<br>
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The event that might be of special interest to oVirt is <b>Open Sorcery -Open Source Programming</b>. This event is aimed at providing opportunities to participants to contribute to real world open source projects. Our vision is to increase the visibility of women and underrepresented groups in open source.<br>
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We really see this as an opportunity for oVirt and Codefest to partner up.<br>
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By sponsoring/partnering up with Codefest, oVirt will be benefited as -<br>
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   <li> Exclusive rights to Open Sorcery.</li>
   <li> Tagline of Open Sorcery will be "<b/>oVirt Autumn of Code</b>".</li>
   <li> oVirt may provide Codefest with issues that will be hosted on Codefest'18 Github Wiki. oVirt is free to label the issues under categories - Hard, Medium, Easy.</li>
   <li> oVirt gets publicized through our dedicated network of more than <b>200 Campus Ambassadors</b> extending our reach to about <b>3,00,000 students</b> in India.</li>
   <li> Publicity and reach in <b>95+ countries</b>.</li>
   <li> Publicity through our Facebook page which has 18,000+ likes.</li>
   <li> Social Media Publicity in over <b>300 international colleges</b>.</li>
   <li> Print Media Publicity in over <b>200 college campuses in India</b>.</li>
   <li> Codefest may be used as a platform to launch new services/products or publicize your motto/recent taglines.</li>
   <li> Codefest maybe used as a platform to establish a <b>developer community</b> for your products.</li>
   <li> Access to complete participant details.</li>
   <li> oVirt may offer <b>hiring opportunities</b> to the winners of Open Sorcery.</li>
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We are open to discuss about the duration of the event. You're free to offer mentorship during the course of the event as well.<br>
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The detailed partnership proposal is attached herewith.<br>
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Please feel free to reach out. We will love to hear your suggestions.
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We look forward to working with oVirt this year at Codefest'18 and in all our future endeavors.<br>
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Warm Regards,<br>
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Abhinav Singh<br>
Convener<br>
Ph: +91 8726198956<br>
abhinavkr.singh.cse15@iitbhu.ac.in <br>
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Karthik Kumar<br>
Co-Convenor<br>
Phone: +91 7007628537<br>
karthik.kumar.cse15@iitbhu.ac.in <br>
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Ayushi Jain<br>
Corporate Relations Head<br>
Ph: +91 9716741628 <br>
ayushi.jain.cse15@iitbhu.ac.in <br>
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Regards,<br>
Team Codefest<br>
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