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I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer 21

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 14th 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 19:00 IST onwards.

Probable Starting Time

28th June 2021, 19:00 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
  • Basic system administration
  • Buffer editors (Vi)
  • Free Software project guidelines
  • Code cross-referencing tools
  • Documentation
  • Source code management systems (Git)
  • 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 33/34).
  • 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.

Contact

Sayan Chowdhury <namoskar AT yudocaa DOT in>

How to join?

Fill this google form.

Mailing List

IRC

  • #dgplug on irc.libera.chat