Dear Luggerz.....
This is what our agenda seems to be...each of the points have to be
understood by all and frozen...Ppl, please come forward and take
responsibility for a couple of these....
a. We need coverage in the technical press. I see the following
magazines where I think we should feature..info about this movement, the
people involved, the processes, the kind of projects. I vote each of us
target a couple of magazines and speak to its editor about what we are
trying to achieve with this. I will work on Network Computing and Chip
magazine. A few others that the other luggerz need to take on are..Developer
Magazine, Express Computing, PC Quest..maybe even Times of India..any other
ideas.guyz..
b. We need to be present at some high-profile technology
events..maybe as a speaker on GNU, GPL, or just about the Project Resource
Center. We also ought to start talking about technology topics-and
identifying ourselves as members of the ILUG Project Resource
Center(ILUG-PRC)..this will put some highlight on the PRC. Can someone take
the responsibility of finding out what events are coming up? Nasscom may be
a good source of such information. Please guys..Do cooperate with us on this
one.......
c. We need to do a survey of what is a valid project..the feedback
form is a good idea, trevor. Some of us need to go to each of our target
institutions and speak to the students there and the professors/teachers.
Who will be part of this team..People.. please come forward.
d. Since I think at least a few students from such institutions
would already be members of the ILUG, they should come forward and be the
ambassadors of the ILUG in their institutions. Vishal.can u do this in
NCST?.Guys.calling the rest of u once again.
e. So far we seem to have a very small PRC team.4-5 chaps
only....Cmon guys we need to do better than this.
f. We need to do a survey of 30-50 companies and find out what is
the kind of projects, they could use in a real IT environment. Apart from
the Project list, we should be creating a target company list by the side.
g. We need a list of questions to ask these companies.does anyone
want to do this?
h. We need to have the collaborative platform up..Trevor and Amol..u
guys seem most capable to do this.will you take this up and see it through
to the finish.
i. We need more projects to offer.and mentors for those projects
as well..We are doing quite pathetically on this front..Ultimately this is
the core of the PRC and we need to pull up our socks on this if we are to
get anywhere.
j. Roles and Responsibilities - From what I can gather, we have
eight distinct roles here.
i. Collaborative Platform Administrator
ii. Student Representatives in each
institution
iii. The guys who talk to the commercial
companies
iv. The guys who will co-ordinate the Image
buidling process
v. MENTOR - we need to decide who will
qualify as a mentor..since he will be responsible for project quality..guys
any ideas..
vi. STUDENT - they make the projects..
vii. Maybe an independent QC process for the
software..again we need to decide who will qualify.
viii. Other roles which I cannot foresee at the
moment.
Probably initially everyone may have to do everything..till we get more
people involved.
Well, thatz all I cud think of for now..pls do give us some feedback here.
-Shankar
_______________________________________________
http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
