FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty/F10/Noida

= Winter Academic Program - 2008 = JIIT University, Noida (Delhi-NCR) Venue Duration: 1st-15th December, 2008

= Audience = Participation: 150 registrations till now. number can increase/decrease. Target Audience: JIIT engineering students and Faculty

= Objective =
 * Motivate to use Linux as primary OS
 * Exposure to Open Source world
 * Gaining technical knowledge
 * Real-world Project experience

= Pre-requisites =
 * Attitude to learn, experiment and play with new stuff
 * Linux machine(Install fest will be held to accomplish this pre-requisite)
 * Decent Internet connection(Hostellers will be notified about how to use IRC considering the fact that some ports are blocked)

= Tentative course content list = 1. History(cover everything), some videos also 2. Open Source terminology 3. Importance of Open Source for student/professionals/industry 4. Linux file system 5. Shell 6. vi editor 7. C Programming using gcc 8. Python programming 9. Qt Programming (maybe PyQt) 10. IRC basics + online communication (soft skills) 11. SVN or Git(not decided yet) 12. Wiki 13. Software packaging (if possible)

= Tentative course of action(mode of delivery) =
 * 1-2 lecture accompanied by videos to get the audience excited
 * Workshops by fellow open source contributors(friends)
 * Lab assignments/exercises
 * Online sessions(by industry developers/professionals)-- some sincere help required in this regard
 * Guest sessions(online) from various Open Source communities

Note: Online sessions will be on IRC at #jiit-lug on Freenode

= Help Required =
 * Fedora 10 CD/DVD
 * Volunteers/Developers who can take up some of the above mentioned sessions
 * Some marketing so that Open Source communities can come and "recruit"(not in true sense) potential participants for the projects.
 * Some swag to give away to the participants (to add the excitement)

= Organizer/Contact Person = Prakhar

= Status =
 * Registrations done. Exact number 150(expected to fall down a little).
 * Finalizing the topics for sessions.
 * Contacting developers who can volunteer for Online sessions.