Panel Discussion Beginner First Talk

From FOSS Clubs to the FOSS Community

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Session Description

Many of the engineering colleges have FOSS clubs, but the real connection with community and community projects is missing. Meanwhile, the FOSS community is missing out real maintainers too. Here we welcome few people from Community as well as FOSS clubs to talk about how to fix the missing link between FOSS Community and FOSS Clubs, and also how projects like Prav can bridge the gap.

Panelists:

Ganesh Adimalupu, Volunteer, FOSS United Community

Ranjith S, Wikimedians of Kerala User Group

Athul R T, Free Software Users Group, Thiruvananthapuram

Key Takeaways

Collectively identify the methods to fix the gap between FOSS clubs and FOSS Community to enhance the contributions from students.

References

https://fsci.in/

https://docs.fossunited.org/clubs/

Session Categories

Introducing a FOSS project or a new version of a popular project

Knowledge Commons (Open Hardware, Open Science, Open Data etc.)

Contributing to FOSS

Speakers

Athul R T FOSS Contributor | FSUG TVM

A FOSS enthusiast with experience in data science and machine learning.
An astrophile, photographer, Openstreetmap mapper, Wikimedian and lot
more.

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