I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer 15
Do you want to see your name next time you install GNU/Linux in your friend’s computer?
Online summer training from Linux Users Group of Durgapur. All are welcome.
Entry Free!
This is the 8th year of the training. Our goal is to bring in more upstream contributors to various
FOSS projects. Through this training we show the path of becoming an upstream contributor. The training
lasts for almost 3 months, sessions are generally at 18:30 IST onwards.
Here is one report
which was published in 2014, and one in 2013.
Probable Starting Time
20th June 2015, 18:30 IST
Objectives
- Revisiting programming fundamentals
- Get acquainted with Free Software technologies
- Gaining technical knowledge
- Real-world project experience
Speciality
- Online reading material will be provided.
- Talks given by different international upstream developers.
- Direct interaction with the developers.
- Soft skill training (online communications).
List of courses
- Communication skills
- Introduction to shell
- Buffer editors (Vi)
- Free Software project guidelines
- Code cross-referencing tools
- Documentation
- Basic system administration
- Source code management systems (Mercurial & Git)
- How to write conference proposals?
- How to make computer to do your work? (We speak Python to do so).
What is required to join this training/Pre-requisites
- A computer with any recent GNU/Linux distribution installed (We prefer Fedora 22).
- A decent Internet connection.
- Attitude to learn.
- Go through previous years’ IRC session logs.
Guest sessions
Through out this training we get many upstream contributors giving special sessions. The topics
for these sessions varies a lot, starting from personal stories about how they started contributing, to
software licenses, documentation projects etc.
Below is a probable list of guest speakers in 2015.
IRC
- #dgplug on irc.freenode.net
