A report on FOSS GN 09 event at Engineering College Bikaner(Rajasthan)

[shreekant bohra]

Hello everyone

I am Shree Kant Bohra, a member of the team which organized a four day FOSS
event at Engineerng College Bikaner <http://www.ecb.ac.in> during 28-31st
October 2009. I would like to thank Fedora India Community for providing
guidance and goodies for the event and in particular I would like to thank
Rahul Sundaram, Sankarsan and Susmit who despite of lack of proper pre
planning of the event managed to provide us with total support. We had talk
on F12 features, SELinux and a Fedora Installfest during the FOSS event. We
have compiled a report of the event and would like to share it with others.

Please Download report from
here.<http://sakshama.org/documents/foss_gn09_report.pdf>

Thanks

-- 
Shree Kant Bohra
Let the Source be open
Blog: insideme.geekybuddha.org

[sankarshan]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:47 PM, shreekant bohra <skbohra123(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  I am Shree Kant Bohra, a member of the team which organized a four
> day FOSS
>  event at Engineerng College Bikaner during 28-31st October 2009. I would
>  like to thank Fedora India Community for providing guidance and goodies for
>  the event and in particular I would like to thank Rahul Sundaram, Sankarsan
>  and Susmit who despite of lack of proper pre planning of the event managed
>  to provide us with total support. We had talk on F12 features, SELinux and a
>  Fedora Installfest during the FOSS event. We have compiled a report of the
>  event and would like to share it with others. 
Thank you for the report. It would be interesting to learn about what
are the plans for the future and, whether post the event we would be
able to observe an increase in the number of participants from your
institute to Free and Open Source Software.

In short, what's next ?


-- 
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>

Sent from Raleigh, NC, United States

[shreekant bohra]

Hi Sankarshan,

Yes, we too are excited about it, what next ? After the FOSS event the
awareness about FOSS has increased exponentially in our college. More and
more students are turning towards FOSS. We setup a LUG on the closing day
and 100 students have registered themselves as the member. As a part of LUG
we have organized 3 fedora installfest after the event , in different
hostels of the college, one of the installfest was organized in Girls
hostel, managed totally by girls,  member of LUG.  Our Next step is to turn
people towards development, and convert them into contributors, for this we
are soon going to organize workshops and start small open source projects in
which students can take part.

Good thing is that we got a great start and we are excited about it, in the
next step we are setting up website for the lug, so that it can be a central
place for all our activities, we already have started an irc channel #lugb(
freenode) where we do open discussion.

As a effect of FOSS GN 09, some of the participants from other colleges
around Bikaner , are also organizing FOSS events and we are helping them out
in spreading the FOSS love, Govt Engineering College Jhalawar, Jodhpur
Engineering College and Research Centre and Jodhpur Institute of Engineering
and Technology students have contacted us and are planning FOSS event.

So we have just ignited the FOSS Fire and determined convert it into big
flame, Hail FOSS.
As a side note, around 20 members of LUGB are attending FOSS.IN event at
Bangalore , the event will surely help them understand FOSS more closely.

A first step towards a wonderful journey.

Cheers


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:24 PM, sankarshan <sankarshan(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;wrote:

>  On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:47 PM, shreekant bohra
> <skbohra123(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>
>  > I am Shree Kant Bohra, a member of the team which organized a four day
>  FOSS
>  > event at Engineerng College Bikaner during 28-31st October 2009. I would
>  > like to thank Fedora India Community for providing guidance and goodies
>  for
>  > the event and in particular I would like to thank Rahul Sundaram,
>  Sankarsan
>  > and Susmit who despite of lack of proper pre planning of the event
>  managed
>  > to provide us with total support. We had talk on F12 features, SELinux
>  and a
>  > Fedora Installfest during the FOSS event. We have compiled a report of
>  the
>  > event and would like to share it with others.
>
>  Thank you for the report. It would be interesting to learn about what
>  are the plans for the future and, whether post the event we would be
>  able to observe an increase in the number of participants from your
>  institute to Free and Open Source Software.
>
>  In short, what's next ?
>
>
>  --
>  sankarshan mukhopadhyay
>  <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>
>
>  Sent from Raleigh, NC, United States
>
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>  


-- 
Shree Kant Bohra
Let the Source be open
Blog: insideme.geekybuddha.org

[sankarshan]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:26 AM, shreekant bohra <skbohra123(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Yes, we too are excited about it, what next ? After the FOSS event
> the
>  awareness about FOSS has increased exponentially in our college. More and
>  more students are turning towards FOSS. We setup a LUG on the closing day
>  and 100 students have registered themselves as the member. As a part of LUG
>  we have organized 3 fedora installfest after the event , in different
>  hostels of the college, one of the installfest was organized in Girls
>  hostel, managed totally by girls,  member of LUG.  Our Next step is to turn
>  people towards development, and convert them into contributors, for this we
>  are soon going to organize workshops and start small open source projects in
>  which students can take part. 
I'd suggest that you try and take help from folks on #fedora-india as
much as possible. There are a lot of small project ideas which have
immediate use and, can help build confidence in those desiring to get
their feet wet in the area of contributing. As quickly as we can move
from having installfests into the area of having regular and scheduled
contribution-centric workouts, the more successful would be your
investment of time and energy.

Fix up a date on which you'd like to have folks from the institute on
the IRC, let the list know and, we can engage in a nice conversation.

>  As a effect of FOSS GN 09, some of the participants from other
> colleges
>  around Bikaner , are also organizing FOSS events and we are helping them out
>  in spreading the FOSS love, Govt Engineering College Jhalawar, Jodhpur
>  Engineering College and Research Centre and Jodhpur Institute of Engineering
>  and Technology students have contacted us and are planning FOSS event. 
This is indeed good to hear.

>  So we have just ignited the FOSS Fire and determined convert it into
> big
>  flame, Hail FOSS.
>  As a side note, around 20 members of LUGB are attending FOSS.IN event at
>  Bangalore , the event will surely help them understand FOSS more closely. 
For those who would be interested, there are activities around Fedora
that are being coordinated by Kushal, Rahul and Susmit (kushal, mether
and susmit on IRC). Please get in touch. Having in-person meetings to
kickstart activities is a great thing to happen.



-- 
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>