> On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 8:48 AM, sankarshan wrote: > It is possible that we can simply look at the PIN codes and plan > around FADs or, introductory workshops in those regions. It will > require funds to get contributors there as well as the time from > those volunteering. However, it is also possible to do this in a > manner which can be re-used. As an example, introduction to use > Project Atomic bits could be structured into how to securely > package your application and thus include further 'gentle introduction' > to security practices, packaging, networking, compilers, tool-chain, > build-tools etc. Given the attention span of a student audience, > learning something from the MOOCs and designing content to be > delivered is a good place to start. This plan has the added benefit > of expanding our existing community to include technical authors, > content writers, instructional designers, embedded systems folks etc. > It is possible to share knowledge in a project oriented format which > can result in skills and aptitude being created which enable the > audience to advance their careers. A small number of the existing > Fedora contributors from India have already done lateral or, even > major career shifts - this personal experience is useful when > designing something that can help the audience (of mostly students). > > It is my belief that while as a project and a community in India we > talk about "growing the community", it is our fiduciary duty to ensure > that new contributors and especially students can use bits from Fedora > as a platform to work on things and work with things for creation. The > economy around us is changing fast and the standard 'IT/CompSci' > course from an institute (even if very reputed) is no longer a good > hedge. If the project itself can figure out ways to address this > situation - we become useful. Is this easy? It is not. Is this hard? > You can absolutely take that for granted. Should we do this? I believe > we should. We could plan to start small. A minimum viable plan that > uses the least possible resources (time, volunteers and funds) to go > about this could be a generally safe place to start from.
It's all agreeable. Let's see how we could use it. --- -P J P http://feedmug.com _______________________________________________ india mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
