BoFs/Education/Dec10-2005

Tomorrow (Dec 10 2005) 3.00pm is the FOSS-EDU meet at (PESIT) Tea House. Its near DevegowdaPetrol Bunk a few meters from Sagar Apollo Clinic. There is a Planet Bajaj Showroom too.

Tea House is some 2-3kms from Banashankari Bus Terminal. Its a straight drive from Banashankari Bus Terminal on Ring Road ( 100 ft). Landmark is DEVEGOWDA PETROL BUNK where tea house is located. This petrol bunk is a very popular landmark. It will take some 20 mins from Jaynagar to reach there. If u are coming from MG Road area, take the Mysore Road FlyOver so that you dont get confused. Come straight on Mysore Road and then take a left to Ring Road.

The focus is how to involve students in the FOSS process.

Updated list of topics
-->also kindly do provide the collection of tools on a cd so that atleast the lugs/linux clubs can get a copy and distribute ,because some students who really are interested do not have the bandwidth to download from the net. (this achived by involving live CD folks as stated below)
 * Create apt/yum/portage repos for currently available education tools

>as far as VTU is concerned it would be best to brief the students the following semester(march-april,for 3rd year students) so that they can think about it and plan before they get into the 4th year.
 * Help students to select foss projects as part of academic requirement.

--->some workshops to introduce the students how to take up a foss project would definitely be useful in helping them in taking up one.
 * Workout a schedule to conduct workshops and learn foss education tools

* Redhat Scholarships * Novell internship program * Google Summer of Code * DotGnu Southern summer of code * Sarai/CSDS Short Term FLOSS Fellowship * Servelots/Janastu has volunteer/internship for community and NGO oriented applications, migration support. http://pantoto.com * Small Research Grant Programme of SPACE --->we could put up the scholarships/interships list on the wiki so that we can provide the link to students looking for the same.
 * How can we help more students to use scholarships/interships to work on FOSS like

(This solves the first problem)
 * Involve live CD folks like Sarath (slynux), Arjun (morphing morphix), Moinak Ghosh (Belanix)

-->'ed comments from Sandesh Kamth, SJCE Mysore

(any thing else ?)