Hello everyone, The ALC [1] Indore Chapter [2] is planning to organize numerous workshops on 'The Apache Way 101'. Through this workshop, we will spread awareness about the The Apache Way and try to help people make their first contribution to any of the Apache project. During these workshops, we will be conducting numerous sessions on various related topics.
As per ALC Event guidelines [3], we would like to request PMC approval for these upcoming ALC Indore Events. The workshop will be of 2 weeks duration and cover the following topics: Week 1: 1. Open-source software a. History b. Why you should know Open Source? c. Why one should contribute to Open Source? d. Perceptions Blocking contribution e. How can one contribute? f. Where to start? 2. Open Source License ( Copyleft/ Copyright ) 3. CLA 4. Open Source opportunities a. Internships b. Jobs 5. Open Source Foundations & their role 6. Apache Software Foundation 7. ASF - Brief History 8. Apache Project Ecosystem a. Resources - Mailing list, GitHub Repos, etc b. Community - PMC, Committer, Contributors, and Users 9. Apache Way 10. Apache Incubator 11. Where to start? Week 2: Apache OFBiz a. Brief introduction b. Setup c. Documentation (Readme and confluence ) d. Build tools (Gradle) e. Understanding the control flow f. Controller, screens, services & events Following will be the speakers: 1. Aditya Sharma 2. Praveen Sharma 3. Priya Sharma 4. Sourabh Jain We will take some open registrations (through Google forms) as well as registrations from students specific to colleges for this event. We already have some interested candidates to join this workshop and plan to have our first workshop from 26th April 2021, Monday to 8th May 2021, Saturday. Details of the event can found here[4]. As we will be doing similar events with the same content and speakers, it would be good if the PMC can allow us to conduct further events based upon the current approval. We will continue to follow the other ALC Event guidelines [3] and continue to post updates on the same email thread. [1] https://s.apache.org/alc [2] https://s.apache.org/alc-indore [3] https://s.apache.org/alc-guidelines [4] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/FpmNCg Thanks and Regards, Aditya Sharma ALC Indore Chapter Lead
