[Ambassadors] Re: Student partnership program. Extending fedora mentor program to students.

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Hi

> As a student what can we do in this regard? ... Most students of my Univ,
> (University of Calcutta) are not interested in Linux, because of
> unfamiliarity with the system. Most of them do all their project work in
> Visual Studio, as that is really easy.

Yeah conducting some workshops is also part of the programme. If you
look at the wiki page that has been created, the same point has been
added. Creating an awareness on what is Fedora and whats so great
about it is also an important area. This brings in awareness and that
awareness need to be converted to something solid and hence the Mentor
programme takes the next step of mentoring new people for their
projects which help them in the longer run.

Hope this helps

Cheers,
Balaji

On 6/18/08, BiGYaN <bigyan.techie at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a student what can we do in this regard? ... Most students of my Univ,
> (University of Calcutta) are not interested in Linux, because of
> unfamiliarity with the system. Most of them do all their project work in
> Visual Studio, as that is really easy.
>
> What can we do about that? ... any suggestions?
>
> I personally feel that educating the students through conferences and
> meetings can be a good start. We can even approach the HoD with requests for
> hands-on sessions, where development in Fedora will be taught.
>
> What do u say guys?
>
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> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:21 PM, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)"
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> >
> > susmit shannigrahi wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 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
> :))
> > >
> >
> > Quite by chance this was the same topic that I broached to Spot yesterday
> afternoon. And it turns out that a good place to push these potential
> contributors would be towards doing "Fedora QE" starting up with learning
> how to triage, process and work the bug queue and additionally coming up
> with Test Cases.
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