Hi Anirudh, You bring forward an interesting question.
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Anirudh Singh Shekhawat<[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > Well the whole point of this is, that i want to do some *real* foss work in > college and get it involved with the mainstream fedora > contributing/developer community. I want to make a list of things which can > be done, so then I can talk to my HOD and start things over. So suggest me > with things which we can do here. A good place to start would be to assess the skills of yourself and, the ones around you who could form the nucleus of this effort. It is somewhat given that once the initial folks start doing things, they gain confidence to start coaching others into participating and contributing. > I've some ideas on the lines of:- > # make students use fedora in programming and other tasks in college. Good idea. A way to start would be to ensure that you have yourself started using Fedora/FOSS to complete programming assignments and, so forth. That way, it would become easier for you to say "look, here's how I do it, and I am sure that we can sit together and, show you how as well" > # getting them involved with different mainstream projects under > fedoraproject. This is based on skill-sets and, interests. Hence, it becomes mandatory for you to keep an eye and, an ear open to spot interests and, perhaps get them introduced on this list. That should allow us to guide them appropriately. And, would also allow you to keep track of the discussion so that you function as a somewhat "local mentor" > # contribution on the basis of quality rather than quantity. > # make college or rather jaipur a hub of foss community work. > > This will also involve lug and the same things could also be implemented in > other colleges, since there are a few others, where we've conducted > workshops as part of lug and have been using fedora all the way. Good stuff. Feels good to read about these ideas. /sankarshan -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
