>
> I guess now we could start some ground work on how it could be done
> and how to move it forward. What do you say ?
My idea is like this (will upload to the wiki),
Please review.
AT FEDORA:
* Contributors suggest potential projects.
* Reviewed by peers, review committee.
* Listing accepted Projects .
* Please note: "Projects" does not mean coding only. It means whatever
is useful for Fedora and community as a whole.
For example, A few tentative projects, other than coding may be
"Creating an BN_IN live cd/Creating a kids spin/Translating fp.o in BN_IN "
* Assigning mentors and backup mentors.
* Fixing up timing and duration of project.
* Evaluation by mentor and review committee.
AT THE INSTITUTES:
* Approach the institutes "Officially".
* Organise seminar/workshop at institutes. A lot of students will come
and participate. Most of them are potential users.
* Follow that up with another advanced workshop. Here you can identify
the potential contributors.
* Now let these selected students know about the mailing lists, irc
and help them identifying their areas of interest.
* Give them a small and easy test, only to identify their willingness
and eagerness to work.
* Assign them projects.
* Award them for good work.
This is a very rough draft, please help improving them.
If you have any question, please add it to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Student_Mentor_Programme#Issues_to_be_…
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> It is an excellent thought.. However we will have to talk this over with the
> HOD of the department.. We are currently on vacation and it might not be
> easy to communicate with him now.. I will give it a try though..
Nice :)
>Btw this
> will be the first mirror we'll aid in putting up a mirror so youll have to
> describe and explain the entire process.. So that the mirror is put up and
> we learn something new.. :-)
Sure, no problem with that.
> Currently im going to google and see what i can learn from there..
Let me give you a few pointers.
[1] man page of rsync
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Mirroring
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On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM, jd hs <pankdh6006(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually me and AnkurShrivastava have been in talks with the network admin
> of manipal for establishing a local repo for an almost a year but due to
> network upgrades including increase in bandwidth not impelmented as yet ,he
> has requested us to wait till August end . Lets Hope For The Best
>
>
> --DhananjaySingh
But why does that affects establishing a internal mirror?
Internally, it will be operated over a 100Mbps Ethernet.
So what's keeping you?
If downloading the content initially is a bit large, it will take
around 55G initially, but you can do that at night over a couple of
weeks. If you need, I can even send it over DVD. :)
PS: Please cc all the contacts, not only me.
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ankur sinha <sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Subject: Fw: Re: Possibility of a Mirror at Manipal?
To: ankur(a)ankurs.com, pankdh6006(a)gmail.com, susmit shannigrahi
<thinklinux.ssh(a)gmail.com>
--- On Sat, 21/6/08, ankur sinha <sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote:
From: ankur sinha <sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in>
Subject: Re: Possibility of a Mirror at Manipal?
To: "susmit shannigrahi" <thinklinux.ssh(a)gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, 21 June, 2008, 12:12 PM
hi,
It is an excellent thought.. However we will have to talk this over
with the HOD of the department.. We are currently on vacation and it
might not be easy to communicate with him now.. I will give it a try
though.. Btw this will be the first mirror we'll aid in putting up a
mirror so youll have to describe and explain the entire process.. So
that the mirror is put up and we learn something new.. :-)
Currently im going to google and see what i can learn from there..
regards,
Ankur
--- On Sat, 21/6/08, susmit shannigrahi <thinklinux.ssh@gmail..com> wrote:
From: susmit shannigrahi <thinklinux.ssh(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Possibility of a Mirror at Manipal?
To: ankur(a)ankurs.com, pankdh6006(a)gmail.com, sanjay_ankur@yahoo..co.in
Cc: "Sankarshan da" <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay(a)gmail.com>, "The Fedora
Project Community in India" <fedora-india(a)redhat.com>
Date: Saturday, 21 June, 2008, 12:06 PM
Hi,
As you all three are from Manipal and as we came to know that you have
a number of Fedora users,
What is the possibility to establish a Fedora mirror (may be internal,
may be external) at your institute?
If your Institute has low bandwidth, you may go for an internal mirror
which won't need much bandwidth.
If your Institute has moderate bandwidth, you may even go public.
If you give this idea a thought (even an internal one), and take up
with your administration, it will be much beneficial for Fedora
as we have shortage of mirrors in India.
And I promise to extend all help possible.
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Hi,
As you all three are from Manipal and as we came to know that you have
a number of Fedora users,
What is the possibility to establish a Fedora mirror (may be internal,
may be external) at your institute?
If your Institute has low bandwidth, you may go for an internal mirror
which won't need much bandwidth.
If your Institute has moderate bandwidth, you may even go public.
If you give this idea a thought (even an internal one), and take up
with your administration, it will be much beneficial for Fedora
as we have shortage of mirrors in India.
And I promise to extend all help possible.
Thanks.
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Regards,
Susmit.
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We can make a live and installable cd which contains emacs eclipse
documentation and some project programs with which students start contacting
the mentors and a new project is born
Arnav Kalra wrote:
> The ideas are good. We can also have a new SIG for this. First start
> with school children, give them a live spin with some games , painting
> and educational stuff
Would you like to start this activity by making a list of things that
can be put into such a spin ?
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BiGYaN wrote:
> As a student what can we do in this regard? ... Most students of my
> Univ, (University of Calcutta) are not interested in Linux, because of
> unfamiliarity with the system. Most of them do all their project work in
> Visual Studio, as that is really easy.
>
> What can we do about that? ... any suggestions?
>
> I personally feel that educating the students through conferences and
> meetings can be a good start. We can even approach the HoD with requests
> for hands-on sessions, where development in Fedora will be taught.
>
> What do u say guys?
Santanu Sinha (from iLUG-Cal and other places) has been trying to do
this at CU for a while. Debarshi participated in a GCC workshop as well,
so yes, this is something that needs to begin. But, in a structured
manner, getting the content to be delivered done up first and then
approaching the HoDs and friends at right places to see what can be done.
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