On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Gautam Chaudhary <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:03 PM, satyaakam goswami <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The fest is on 4th and 5th Feb, 2011. >>> >> >> cool where is the wiki page or agenda for the event we can chip in that >> way , add your event to the site fossevents.in >> >> -Satya >> > > We have not setup any wiki page for the FOSS Camp yet as we are still not > decided on what to include. I'll be myself giving an overview of opensource > to the students. > > Our mail goal would be to provide them an overview of the opensource world > and tell them in what way they can contribute. > Definitely we do not plan to make it into too much of programming as they > won't find it interesting. > The objective is to include basics of everything, like Intro to > opensource, Linux OS, Web development with Joomla and Wordpress , various > opensource tools like GIMP, Inkscape etc. > 1) Discuss the differences between proprietary and distributed , shared model of development 2) irc chat to ask doubts 3) how to ask questions in a forum 4) how to submit bugs 5) editing wikis and wikipedia.org 6) career opportunities in FOSS 7) example of foss deployments more than specific tools 8) Translation work how that can happen and how they can contribute -Satya -- LUG@IITD - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
