#techlekh

ACM NIT Jamshedpur in association with Open Source For You presents, TekhLekh; a technical article writing competition. Open Source For You (earlier Linux For You) is India's leading and the complete magazine on open source. Now you have enough reasons to show your expertise in areas of your interest and have a chance to share the knowledge to the world. We will select top 3 technical articles to give out 2500 INR, Year long subscription of Open Source For You (/LFY), April issue of OSFY and much more. But the list of benefits doesn't end here, if your article fits in our requirements then we will get your articles published in the coming issues of Open Source For You and you will get paid for your article. Please note that being selected for 1st, 2nd or 3rd prize doesn't guarantee the publication of your article in magazine. Impress us and your article will be eligible for the publication even if you are not in the top three list.

General guidelines for Technical Articles

Maximum word limit for the article is 1200. 

It should be original. 

A person can't give more than 3 articles.

Send your entries before 4th April 2013 with your name, roll, branch, year, name of college to [email protected]

You may use non-copyrighted images, diagrams, tables, graphs etc in your article.

General guidelines for formatting Articles

Send in the article as editable document formats like ODT, TXT, DOC and RTF.

Including code in the article: There is no need to shade the code and program listings that you include in your articles. Simply use the format shown below, and we'll take care of the rest.

--------------------------------CODE-----------------------------

void main()

{

puts("Hello World!");

}

--------------------------------CODE-----------------------------

You can use this format to even highlight notes, cautions, warnings, acknowledgments, etc.

Please DO NOT copy-paste any text from publications in any media (and that explicitly includes the Internet) in your article. In case you need to use some text that is covered under a license permitting redistribution, it is desirable you mention the source (and other proper attributions) explicitly in the text. For example, you might say, "The Wikipedia defines the potato as a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, grown for its starchy tuber." This is important for all text that you borrow verbatim (please try to avoid it altogether) from a source. Copyright is an important issue.

IMPORTANT. You could avoid pasting the figures in the document. Please include just the figure titles (like Figure 1: Figure title). Attach the figures separately with the email, preferably in PNG or JPEG formats. These could be compressed into a single ZIP file with the figure/image names intuitive.

If you are aiming high and want to get your articles publish in addition to win prizes. Here are few personal tips.

Write articles on open source technologies which itself covers a myriad of topics viz. networking, system administration, software development, embedded systems, and even hands-on tutorials for newbies. Following are few article genres which worth consideration. 

Tips & Tricks for software developers or IT implementers

Cool tweaks for FOSS enthusiasts

FOSS on Mobiles

Virtualisation

OpenJDK or Java on Linux

OpenBSD, Linux kernel, gnome, Tizen, Ubuntu phone OS, Network programming, parallel and/or distributed programming in in C, Python, Java, security tools etc.

How can I do ‘that‘ on Linux

Reviews of latest open source tool.

But of course you are free to write for other topics. If you have got any interesting idea, just go for it.

 Best Wishes to all potential writers.