I am one of the participants in this particular summer training in DGPLUG. I fortunately stumbled upon this event and found the whole idea quite interesting. I'm an engineering student in JIIT University, Noida (Delhi-NCR). Apropos your discussion, I would like to organise some events in my college. We are in the process of setting up an Open Source Club here in our university. Our main focus will be on organising install-fests/open-discussions/workshops/tech-talks/etc.. Although, many people(including me) have some experience with open source, we lack some organising skills. One of our main concerns is how to impress students, how to get them excited by the Open Source world. It would be very helpful if we can get some inputs from Fedora-India community. Also, what more events can we organize in order to reach out to masses? Please give some inputs. thanks!
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Apropos your discussion, I would like to organise some events in my college. We are in the process of setting up an Open Source Club here in our university. Our main focus will be on organising install-fests/open-discussions/workshops/tech-talks/etc.. Although, many people(including me) have some experience with open source, we lack some organising skills. One of our main concerns is how to impress students, how to get them excited by the Open Source world. It would be very helpful if we can get some inputs from Fedora-India community. Also, what more events can we organize in order to reach out to masses?
Organizing events and install fests is just fine, but I am curious to know how many of you attending the DGPLUG workshop will actually turn into _regular__contributors_ to free software projects? Will you?
Cheerio, Debarshi
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Debarshi Ray debarshi.ray@gmail.com wrote:
Organizing events and install fests is just fine, but I am curious to know how many of you attending the DGPLUG workshop will actually turn into _regular__contributors_ to free software projects? Will you?
I'm already into development. I'm working with "One Laptop Per Child" (OLPC). You may like to refer: http://wiki.laptop.org/User:Prakhar The DGPLUG workshop is an add-on for me this summer. I'm quite aware of many things that are part of this training. But yes, there also are many things I was unaware of. One step leads to another; when I came acrosss this IRC-based workshop, I got two of my friends also to join in. I consider this also as contribution. As you can see, for me, contribution is not restricted only to coding. Well, this has put me to think: Is promoting Open Source in any form or through any kind of event not counted as contribution to the community? Would love to read your thoughts.
Cheers!
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Prakhar Agarwal prakhar@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I'm already into development. I'm working with "One Laptop Per Child" (OLPC). You may like to refer: http://wiki.laptop.org/User:Prakhar
Sorry, the link is: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Prakhar I apologize for the mistake.
I'm already into development. I'm working with "One Laptop Per Child" (OLPC). You may like to refer: http://wiki.laptop.org/User:Prakhar
That is nice. :-)
Well, this has put me to think: Is promoting Open Source in any form or through any kind of event not counted as contribution to the community? Would love to read your thoughts.
Since the #dgplug workshop has a technical touch to it, one can expect atleast one or two new contributors at the end of it. Contributions can be code, documentation, artwork, triage, etc..
Cheerio, Debarshi