[Ambassadors] Fedora Certificate Projects

[José Roberto Colombo Junior]

I think it will. Because it's like everybody says: "A act is more precious
than one thousand words".

2009/5/11 sankarshan <foss.mailinglists at gmail.com>

> [Caveat: I read through the responses on this thread before writing this
> mail]
>
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Abhradip Mukherjee
> <abhradipmukherjee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is Abhradip Mukherjee. Here in India (West Bengal) we have a strong
> > base. There are several students ready to jump into development fields.
> They
> > want to contribute and work for fedoraproject and GNU/Linux development
> at
> > large. I am thinking of starting a  fedora project to start certification
> > projects for such students. That will boost the movement a lot and will
> > encourage potential students to not only use free software but also
> develop
> > it.
>
> If there are several students about whom you are aware about
> contributing as a developer, an approach that introduces them
> step-wise to all the factoids they would need to learn before doing so
> would be optimal. And, to begin with, they should be at least on
> fedora-india mailing list so that they can feel free to ask questions
> smartly. Instead of thinking of starting a project to "certify" the
> interested participants, it would perhaps be a good idea to look at :
> <http://kushaldas.in/tmp/summer_training-small.png> And, as always,
> there is #fedora-india for them to land up and get initial
> hand-holding/coaching.
>
> The way I read your mail, you are talking about two specific points :
> [1] getting students to contribute and participate [2] assessing the
> feasibility of obtaining for them a "certificate" which would be
> accepted and relevant in their academic life. I'd suggest that we
> focus a bit more on [1] first so that we have good participants.
>
>
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