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

Create apt/yum/portage repos for currently available education tools

-->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)

Help students to select foss projects as part of academic requirement.

>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.

Workout a schedule to conduct workshops and learn foss education tools

--->some workshops to introduce the students how to take up a foss project would definitely be useful in helping them in taking up one.

How can we help more students to use scholarships/interships to work on FOSS like

* 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.

Involve live CD folks like Sarath (slynux), Arjun (morphing morphix), Moinak Ghosh (Belanix)

(This solves the first problem)

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

(any thing else ?)