dgplug summer training 2016

I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer 16¶

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 9th 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. This year there will be live view of terminals where participants will be able to see what the trainer is doing on the computer.

Here is one report which was published in 2014, and one in 2013.

Probable Starting Time¶

19th June 2016, 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)
Using gpg in daily life
Using Ansible to manage your system.
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 24).
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 list of guest speakers in 2016 (sessions already happened).

Contact¶

Kushal Das

How to join?¶

Fill this google form.

Mailing List¶

http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org.

IRC¶

#dgplug on irc.freenode.net