On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Giriraj Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > The main idea and theme of hackfest would still remain Contribution to Open > Source for extreme beginners and how to get started[1] with it easily. > > [1] > http://blog.hackerearth.com/2014/03/how-to-get-started-with-open-source.html
Sayan writes a fine post. If the participants in the hackfest need an introduction to Open Source, then it is less of a "hack" fest and more of a "here's how you can start, let's pick these easy topics to learn all the basic skills". I have a reasonable aversion to terming every event as a "hack" fest but that is probably because I am old. And if that is indeed the objective, then the organizer needs to have a (i) good grasp of easy topics to target and solve (ii) existing relationships with various projects within Fedora to make necessary introductions and sponsor new candidates into such activities (iii) have a method in place to follow up beyond this event. Coaching new participants into sustaining contributors is a long ball game. The first event is just the jump-off point. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> _______________________________________________ india mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
