[fedora-india] About Pre-requisite of Hackfest

[Mayur Patil]

Hi Giriraj,

     Does it mean I have to first propose a session and then a/c to
organizers and audience response, it is going to be finalized?


*--*

*Regards,*

*Mayur S Patil,*
*Pune, India*

On 24 February 2015 at 21:18, Giriraj Sharma <giriraj.sharma27 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Mayur,
>
> I have conducted similar sessions like contributing to open source, GIT
> and other VCS (SVN, Mercurial etc.) hands on. I haven been an active
> contributor to Redhat JBoss Security (GSoCer 2014) and currently working
> upon JBoss KeyCloak (for GSoC  2015).
> My own submitted session[1] is different and is not related to Getting
> Started with Open Source . *My idea was if organizers feel that your
> session/hands on is feasible or in case you are allocated a slot, we can
> get it conducted together or I can join you in the session/hands on.* :)
> I am myself not a part of organizing committee.
>
> Also, your session will do make sense in my personal opinion if there will
> be huge participation from students.
>
> [1]
> http://fudcon.in/sessions/securing-applications-federated-identities-saml-oauth-20-openid
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Mayur Patil <ram.nath241089 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>     Sorry for late reply and insufficient info about my session.
>>
>>    1. Meaning for contributing to open source is:
>>
>>        Actually, I want to teach Newbies about the *Git and Github with
>> hands on.*
>>
>>        For those who are quite familiar with opensource and want to get
>> started as coding contributor but don't know How.
>>
>>        So as all folks are saying, the candidate should have some
>> familiarity with opensource.
>>
>>        If I am conducting such session, then should I call it as
>> "Hackfest" (?)
>>
>>    2. And actually I would like to work with Giriraj in his session if
>> time permits so add a bit of guidance
>>
>>        for how to get started with opensource.
>>
>>     Seeking for guidance,
>>
>>     Thanks !!
>>
>>
>> On 24 February 2015 at 19:08, Giriraj Sharma <giriraj.sharma27 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Agreed
>>> Sankarshan, Kushal
>>>
>>> It would appear more of a general talk/session rather than a hackfest.
>>> As Mayur Patil had initially given a thought about it, he can prefer to
>>> submit a talk/session on it and not a hackfest session. I am a contributor
>>> to JBoss Security (Picketlink, Keycloak) since Jan 2014. If the slot for
>>> talk is allocated or looks feasible, I would be happy to join him. In
>>> addition, I have also submitted a session for my own talk.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Kushal Das <kushaldas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:07 PM, sankarshan <
>>>> foss.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Giriraj Sharma
>>>> > <giriraj.sharma27 at gmail.com> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Generally we do not call that a hackfest. I was thinking about writing
>>>> the same. But you already did with better words :)
>>>>
>>>> Kushal
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Giriraj Sharma,
>>> Department of Computer Science
>>> National Institute of Technology Hamirpur
>>> Himachal Pradesh, India
>>>
>>
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