Students’ Information Technology Conference (SITCON)
SITCON 2016 “Let’s Open Source!”Photo by 小默 @ SITCON, CC BY-SA 2.0
SITCON is the largest student IT community in East Asia. Revolved around the annual conference under the same name, it provides students overlooked by the educational system an accessible stage to present their brilliance. It's the stepping portal toward the open source world, the honored arena of home-brew projects and researches, and the crossroad where newcomers and skilled programmers collide and spark innovations.
Inspired by a wave of flourishing IT conventions in 2012, SITCON was founded by student FOSS volunteers solely over the Internet. Starting from a simple idea: to hold a conference "of the students, by the students, for the students," the proposal frenzied like wildfire, and a full-fledged task-force formed within the blink of 3 days. RSVPs ran out almost immediately, participants from graduates to middle school students packed the lecture halls with glee, sharing topics from digital arts to game development——for the first time in Taiwan, they felt seen. The conference body soon evolved into a supportive student IT community, running local meetups and educational events for no cost.
SITCON 2020 “#define student”Photo by 丞相 @ SITCON, CC BY-SA 2.0
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