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Re: [Ambassadors] Re: APAC Ambassadors Meeting - IRC Log 2008-06-15

by sankarshan

"G" wrote: > Please find the link for the page. Please go through it and give me > your suggestions. I hope i ve covered almost all the points that we > discussed in the past meeting and hope its fine though. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Student_Mentor_Programme Some students desire that they may be provided with a certificate from a company at the end of the project - how does that requirement fit into this program ? Additionally, how would the mentors be tracking the projects ? And, estimating that the objective of the projects were met at the end of the projected duration ? -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work

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

by sankarshan

"G" wrote: >> i think that is very valid and practical solution and a very obvious >> observation that most of choose to overlook, students here in india dont >> contribute because they know so little about linux, i am talking about the >> general mass, and they are sckeptical about it, first we need to increase >> the familiarty with the system only that will lead to an increase in >> contributions from the students, i can also approach my HoD with a request >> for Hands on sessions on development in linux and the ease of use of it, >> that will be a good place to start, coupled with the Mentoring program it >> may increase contributions to the community > > Yes exactly thats the situation and conferences and workshops have to > be started as part of the mentor programme. Ambassadors play a very > vital role here. The familiarity would be increased only through > conferences and workshops and this awareness would be converted using > mentor programme when the student wants to get into the project. The bottomline is that they might be unfamiliar with Linux - but are they equipped with the knowledge of the tools and languages that would allow them to contribute ? So, for example, would they be able to handle stuff like merge review requests or take up packaging for things that are on the wish list of "wish i had this software packaged for fedora" ... -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work

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

by sankarshan

Kushal Das wrote: > Look at this http://wiki.dgplug.org/index.php/SummerTraining You need to get this blogged ;) -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work

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

by sankarshan

susmit shannigrahi wrote: > Nice, so may we start off with University of Calcutta? > I can arrange for a few speakers and support (Media, brochures etc..) ACK :) -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work

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

by sankarshan

ankur sinha wrote: > The idea is really great.. Im a college going student just entering 3rd semester in Computer sciences .. and am already looking for programmes and training to add to my CV for a better job.. My college, Manipal Institute of technology, Manipal, India, has just recently become a part of the Sun academic Initiative, which has some perks.. Such an educational programme from Fedora would be more than a dream come true.. A lot of us go through books and material but teaching yourself is not as efficient as a mentor telling you what to do and helping you apply your knowledge practically.. Please give this programme thought.. A few hours a week will be enough from the mentors and there will be plenty of students who are interested and want to learn and contribute.. Having a mentor is a good idea. What is a first step is the Fedora Project folks fixing up the areas wherein it seems that a communication disjoint exists. For example, in your case, what were the issues that you faced when you wanted to do a project for Fedora ? ps: you would like to fix the word wrap on your mail client :) -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work

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Re: Student partnership program. Extending fedora mentor program to students.

by sankarshan

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. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work

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Fwd: incoming potential breakage in rawhide.

by Debarshi Ray

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> Date: 2008/6/17 Subject: incoming potential breakage in rawhide. To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com Tomorrows rawhide enables something we've been saying "Hey, we should do that" for about 3-4 releases now. By default, booting up will enable glibc's malloc perturbing. * Apps that expect allocated memory to be zeroed which are calling malloc() instead of calloc() will break. * Apps using memory after it's been free()'d will break. All somewhat akin to the alloc debugging we enable in the kernel each rawhide. This will cause currently silent bugs to make apps abort() instead. There's slight performance overhead, but hey, it's rawhide, we'll turn it off again later. You'll be able to turn it off in /etc/sysconfig/mcheck But, if stuff starts breaking left and right for you, don't just disable this, please file bugs! There's one known bug which has been outstanding for a while, which is guaranteed to hit any fedora committer using x86-64. 'make upload' causes curl to break.. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429175 Hopefully we can finally get this fixed this release. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

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Re: [Ambassadors] Re: APAC Ambassadors Meeting - IRC Log 2008-06-15

by susmit shannigrahi

> Please find the link for the page. Please go through it and give me > your suggestions. I hope i ve covered almost all the points that we > discussed in the past meeting and hope its fine though. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-Student_Mentor_Programme Nicely done, I am adding a few more lines. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= ssh 0x86DD170A http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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Re: Fedora-india Digest, Vol 10, Issue 15

by Arnav Kalra

he can only have 200 to 600 mb bandwidth

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distribution

by Arnav Kalra

my friend wants a way with which he can download fedora for an old Pentium 3. can you help in which way of downloading should i suggest. -- arnav kalra (linux inside)

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