The OpenLake Blog
Mentorships, side projects, and deep technical write-ups by the students building at IIT Bhilai — shipped in the open.
How to run a DevLabs at your college
The short version: a three-page framework for running a beginner open-source bootcamp with no budget — platforms to use, program structure, and prerequisites.
We ran a summer bootcamp for 150 students with no budget and a lot of WhatsApp
Notes from DevLabs 2.0: what worked, what quietly fell apart, and what we would tell any student community thinking about doing this. 150 registered, 25 finished — including the number most recap posts leave out.
Summer Mentorships 2026: LFX Mentorship Mid-Term Report
From PR #513 to eight merged pull requests into the Zowe Client Java SDK — a mid-term look at shipping production-grade z/OSMF REST APIs through the Open Mainframe Project Summer Mentorship.
Brok: a blunt blacksmith for your architecture
A deterministic MCP that does the napkin math AI coding assistants skip — finds the bottleneck, prices the egress bill, and roasts your architecture with cited numbers and no hallucinated verdicts.
Kudos: Engineering a Token-Weighted Social Economy
A deep technical dive into the polyglot microservices, economic algorithms, gRPC communication, MLFQ feed ranking, and database design powering Kudos — a platform where engagement is a scarce digital currency.
The Only OpenSource Calendar You Need!
An interactive Open Source Program Calendar built for OpenLake, IIT Bhilai. Track majors programs like GSoC, LFX, FOSSEE, ESoC, GSSoC and C4GT through a centralized timeline.
Written by students, for everyone. Want to publish something? Open a PR.