Hello everyone,
This is a follow-up email for some "coffee discussions" we had at flock a few weeks ago. Sorry for the delay!
The Fedora community contains a lot of university students, many of us packaging tools for their courses and acting as first-level Linux support for the local student community. The problems we encounter and work on are not identical but share a common base: it only makes sense to collaborate.
We found (over a few flock coffee breaks) 5-6 fedorans interested in joining such an initiative and are currently creating a SIG as a mean to communicate. We haven't decided on anything yet, except that we would like to work together to make Fedora an accessible platform for student and courses in an university context. We expect overlapping interests and collaboration with others SIGs, especially if related to the academic world such as NeuroFedora or ML.
We are aware of the dormant Education SIG [1] but have yet to discuss how to position - or integrate - ourselve.
A slightly more detailed description can be found on the related wiki page [2]. I invite you to add your name to its members section you're interested to work with us. We will figure out communication and coordination mediums around next week.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/University
Cheers,
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 9:42:15 AM MST Timothée Floure wrote:
Hello everyone,
This is a follow-up email for some "coffee discussions" we had at flock a few weeks ago. Sorry for the delay!
The Fedora community contains a lot of university students, many of us packaging tools for their courses and acting as first-level Linux support for the local student community. The problems we encounter and work on are not identical but share a common base: it only makes sense to collaborate.
We found (over a few flock coffee breaks) 5-6 fedorans interested in joining such an initiative and are currently creating a SIG as a mean to communicate. We haven't decided on anything yet, except that we would like to work together to make Fedora an accessible platform for student and courses in an university context. We expect overlapping interests and collaboration with others SIGs, especially if related to the academic world such as NeuroFedora or ML.
We are aware of the dormant Education SIG [1] but have yet to discuss how to position - or integrate - ourselve.
A slightly more detailed description can be found on the related wiki page [2]. I invite you to add your name to its members section you're interested to work with us. We will figure out communication and coordination mediums around next week.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/University
Cheers,
You most likely don't need a SIG for that, you could just ask for a separate mailing list to be created for you :)
I think a SIG is a great start as a gathering place for other university students. As shown in [2], it looks like a mailing list is also one of the eventual goals :)
- Tim Zabel
On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 17:26 -0700, John Harris wrote:
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 9:42:15 AM MST Timothée Floure wrote:
Hello everyone,
This is a follow-up email for some "coffee discussions" we had at flock a few weeks ago. Sorry for the delay!
The Fedora community contains a lot of university students, many of us packaging tools for their courses and acting as first-level Linux support for the local student community. The problems we encounter and work on are not identical but share a common base: it only makes sense to collaborate.
We found (over a few flock coffee breaks) 5-6 fedorans interested in joining such an initiative and are currently creating a SIG as a mean to communicate. We haven't decided on anything yet, except that we would like to work together to make Fedora an accessible platform for student and courses in an university context. We expect overlapping interests and collaboration with others SIGs, especially if related to the academic world such as NeuroFedora or ML.
We are aware of the dormant Education SIG [1] but have yet to discuss how to position - or integrate - ourselve.
A slightly more detailed description can be found on the related wiki page [2]. I invite you to add your name to its members section you're interested to work with us. We will figure out communication and coordination mediums around next week.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/University
Cheers,
You most likely don't need a SIG for that, you could just ask for a separate mailing list to be created for you :)
-- John M. Harris, Jr. johnmh@splentity.com Splentity https://splentity.com/
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:43 PM Timothée Floure timothee.floure@posteo.net wrote:
Hello everyone,
This is a follow-up email for some "coffee discussions" we had at flock a few weeks ago. Sorry for the delay!
The Fedora community contains a lot of university students, many of us packaging tools for their courses and acting as first-level Linux support for the local student community. The problems we encounter and work on are not identical but share a common base: it only makes sense to collaborate.
We found (over a few flock coffee breaks) 5-6 fedorans interested in joining such an initiative and are currently creating a SIG as a mean to communicate. We haven't decided on anything yet, except that we would like to work together to make Fedora an accessible platform for student and courses in an university context. We expect overlapping interests and collaboration with others SIGs, especially if related to the academic world such as NeuroFedora or ML.
We are aware of the dormant Education SIG [1] but have yet to discuss how to position - or integrate - ourselve.
A slightly more detailed description can be found on the related wiki page [2]. I invite you to add your name to its members section you're interested to work with us. We will figure out communication and coordination mediums around next week.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/University
Hi Timothée,
I think this is a great initiative! Maybe it's a bit early to ask, but I'm curious what sort of projects you see a SIG focusing on?
(If grad students would be welcome here too, I might be interested. :) )
Cheers, Ben Rosser
+1 for this idea,i'd love to join this sig
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 9:01 PM Ben Rosser rosser.bjr@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:43 PM Timothée Floure timothee.floure@posteo.net wrote:
Hello everyone,
This is a follow-up email for some "coffee discussions" we had at flock a few weeks ago. Sorry for the delay!
The Fedora community contains a lot of university students, many of us packaging tools for their courses and acting as first-level Linux support for the local student community. The problems we encounter and work on are not identical but share a common base: it only makes sense to collaborate.
We found (over a few flock coffee breaks) 5-6 fedorans interested in joining such an initiative and are currently creating a SIG as a mean to communicate. We haven't decided on anything yet, except that we would like to work together to make Fedora an accessible platform for student and courses in an university context. We expect overlapping interests and collaboration with others SIGs, especially if related to the academic world such as NeuroFedora or ML.
We are aware of the dormant Education SIG [1] but have yet to discuss how to position - or integrate - ourselve.
A slightly more detailed description can be found on the related wiki page [2]. I invite you to add your name to its members section you're interested to work with us. We will figure out communication and coordination mediums around next week.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/University
Hi Timothée,
I think this is a great initiative! Maybe it's a bit early to ask, but I'm curious what sort of projects you see a SIG focusing on?
(If grad students would be welcome here too, I might be interested. :) )
Cheers, Ben Rosser _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
If you're interested, feel free to add your name to the Members section of the University SIG [2] wiki. I don't see why grad students can't join as well :)
As of now, I don't think there is a set "agenda" for the SIG to focus on. I believe around next week we will focus on figuring out the best way to communicate with one another, and come up with a roadmap.
Afaik, the main goal at this point is to make Fedora more accessible and friendly towards students and courses. This may mean updating documentation, packaging software used in university courses, and everything in between :)
- Tim Zabel
On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 22:24 +0530, Manas Mangaonkar wrote:
+1 for this idea,i'd love to join this sig
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 9:01 PM Ben Rosser rosser.bjr@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:43 PM Timothée Floure timothee.floure@posteo.net wrote:
Hello everyone,
This is a follow-up email for some "coffee discussions" we had at flock a few weeks ago. Sorry for the delay!
The Fedora community contains a lot of university students, many of us packaging tools for their courses and acting as first-level Linux support for the local student community. The problems we encounter and work on are not identical but share a common base: it only makes sense to collaborate.
We found (over a few flock coffee breaks) 5-6 fedorans interested in joining such an initiative and are currently creating a SIG as a mean to communicate. We haven't decided on anything yet, except that we would like to work together to make Fedora an accessible platform for student and courses in an university context. We expect overlapping interests and collaboration with others SIGs, especially if related to the academic world such as NeuroFedora or ML.
We are aware of the dormant Education SIG [1] but have yet to discuss how to position - or integrate - ourselve.
A slightly more detailed description can be found on the related wiki page [2]. I invite you to add your name to its members section you're interested to work with us. We will figure out communication and coordination mediums around next week.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Education [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/University
Hi Timothée,
I think this is a great initiative! Maybe it's a bit early to ask, but I'm curious what sort of projects you see a SIG focusing on?
(If grad students would be welcome here too, I might be interested. :) )
Cheers, Ben Rosser _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 06:42:15PM +0200, Timothée Floure wrote:
A slightly more detailed description can be found on the related wiki page [2]. I invite you to add your name to its members section you're interested to work with us. We will figure out communication and coordination mediums around next week.
Hi! This is awesome. Please don't forget that Mindshare is providing $150 "mini-grants" for meetups and things like that, and we'd like to do at least two of those a week. One thing I think this SIG could do is put together some pre-packaged ideas for mini-events that could be held on campus for that kind of budget. (Right now, we often have Fedora release parties, but we need more things that aren't tied to the release schedule like that.)
Also, university users are a strong interest for Red Hat's investment in the Silverblue initiative, so there's some connecting-up there which might be useful.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:43 AM Timothée Floure timothee.floure@posteo.net wrote:
Hello everyone,
This is a follow-up email for some "coffee discussions" we had at flock a few weeks ago. Sorry for the delay!
The Fedora community contains a lot of university students, many of us packaging tools for their courses and acting as first-level Linux support for the local student community. The problems we encounter and work on are not identical but share a common base: it only makes sense to collaborate.
We found (over a few flock coffee breaks) 5-6 fedorans interested in joining such an initiative and are currently creating a SIG as a mean to communicate. We haven't decided on anything yet, except that we would like to work together to make Fedora an accessible platform for student and courses in an university context. We expect overlapping interests and collaboration with others SIGs, especially if related to the academic world such as NeuroFedora or ML.
We are aware of the dormant Education SIG [1] but have yet to discuss how to position - or integrate - ourselve.
A slightly more detailed description can be found on the related wiki page [2]. I invite you to add your name to its members section you're interested to work with us. We will figure out communication and coordination mediums around next week.
Hi,
I'm a new member of the Fedora Workstation working group, and would like to reach out to the University SIG with an invitation to keep us informed of your priorities and conclusions (wish lists, biggest complaints, whatever you see fit), so that we can also ensure Workstation edition is continuing to meet the changing needs of the student community. You are an explicitly listed target market!
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation