About
Hacktoberfest comes to IIT Bhilai.
One day. Open-source AI. You arrive with a laptop and leave with a working project in a public repository.
This is an official Hacktoberfest 2026 Hack Day — the in-person edition of the global open-source celebration run by Major League Hacking and DEV with DigitalOcean. A few hundred exist worldwide. This is the first at IIT Bhilai, and it is open to students across Chhattisgarh.
The day: a morning workshop that takes you from nothing to a running agent, then a full afternoon of building with mentors on the floor, then demos and judging.
What you build with: open-weight models and open-source harnesses. MLH has assigned this event the Google Gemma challenge, alongside categories for agent skills, model harnesses and open-weight LLMs.
No experience required. The workshop starts from zero. If you have never built with AI, this is the easiest door you will find.
Every project is built on the day, published under an open-source licence, and judged in the open. Winning teams receive DEV Badges. Free to attend.
📅 Saturday 10 October · 🕒 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM · 📍 L101, IIT Bhilai
🎫 Register: https://events.mlh.com/events/14954-hacktoberfest-hack-day-durg-x-openlake
