Fedora Contributors In India

= Indian Fedora Contributors =

This is a place for recognizing, keeping track of Indian contributors to Fedora, encourage more co-ordination, mentoring and participation in regional events among other activities. Regardless of what your contributors are, feel free to sign up in this page and provide more details.

Ambassadors

 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CategoryAmbassadorsIndia

Local contacts for Fedora CD/DVD
In addition to FreeMedia program, find and contact your nearest person from this list to get Fedora CD/DVD.


 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia/India/LocalContacts

Community Activities
Currently managed by the following team members:


 * SusmitShannigrahi
 * RahulSundaram
 * SankarshanMukhopadhyay

What are we doing?
From FY09

Focus Points: People, Presence, and Infrastructure.


 * Presence at community events
 * Visibility to Indian contributors and associated metrics
 * Promote Ambassadors
 * Campus and institutional tie-ups
 * More mentors
 * Get more Indian Mirrors
 * Manage the Indian localized spins
 * FreeMedia Project
 * Swag - Live CD, stickers etc and use them for release events
 * Recording community presentations and events
 * Regular and informal meetings
 * IRC sessions and classes
 * FUDCon in India at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConIndia2008
 * Regional and local language press
 * Nurture and encourage community presence external to and within Red Hat India

For FY10

Focus Points: People, Education and Mentoring


 * Presence at community events
 * A FAD in each quarter (minimum target)
 * Providing guidance and mentors for new Ambassadors
 * Consistent usage of IRC towards providing a 'Classroom' session
 * Nurture, build and encourage a community message around a select group of projects
 * Investigate and build new areas of contributions for participants to the project
 * Investigate and build upon the success provided by FEL to make in roads into Education
 * Workshops for students towards using Fedora as a development platform