Hackathon experience
This week, I participated in Hackathon for the first time in Microsoft. Though it's been happening for past few years now, for some reason or another, I prioritized work over that. But this year, I decided to participate in a Hack for Good project which means, we are coming up with technical solutions to solve some of the problems face by non-profits. So basically doing something new, different, fun and exciting all at the same time, along with doing good and challenging yourself while doing so. I had picked this project called Agaram foundation which funds college education for the under-privileged in India. It is based on Chennai and started by a celebrity called Surya. They had 4 components, and 4 sub-groups were assigned to solve each of those. Knowledge sharing/searching for resources in their knowledge database, discussion forums, scanning application forms of students, and video translation. Out of all of them, the video translation part seemed like it would involve some c...