Student partnership program. Extending fedora mentor program to students.

Chip Smith unix-advocate at gmx.com
Sat Jun 21 21:09:24 UTC 2008


I my self am a student currentslly studinh for the comptai A * and Net  
plus this coming fall which means I,ok need access to mentor or better  
yet support at areduced price.

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On Jun 21, 2008, at 12:16 PM, "Dipanjan Chakraborty" <chakraborty.dipanjan at gmail.com 
 > wrote:

> This is really great news. I am a student of 4th semester B.Tech in  
> Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology,  
> Kolkata. I am sure my college will jump at this idea. It will really  
> be glad to host Fedora conferences and seminars. We already have a  
> functioning Linux Users' Group and this will be an added boost. The  
> students will also lap up the idea of projects. I will definitely  
> talk to the college authorities and let you know the outcome.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Dipanjan Chakraborty.
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:14 AM, susmit shannigrahi <thinklinux.ssh at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In our previous APAC ambassadors meeting we were discussing about  
> this idea[1].
>
> Generally the final/pre-final year engineering students need to do
> some project work on a topic.
> What I personally saw that they desperately search for one.
>
> we can make a lot of  new contributors if we provide them with a
> project to work, some guidence
> and may be a certificate at the end. (As they say, target this  
> segment :))
>
> This way we can make much more widespread effect as the student
> partners themselves will spread Fedora within their peers and their
> college.
>
> Also we may talk about officially tie-up with some colleges.
>
> The basic idea is here[2].
>
> Now the question id if this is worth taking up.
> If yes, lets refine it here.
>
>
>
> [1]https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-June/msg00241.html
> [2]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Student_Mentor_Programme
>
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