[X-POST] I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer 2016

[chandan kumar]

Hi,

Do you want to see your name next time you install GNU/Linux in your

friend's computer?

If yes, then go ahead and read ...

We are happy to announce "I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer

2016",[1] a free (as in freedom), online (IRC-based) [2] training

sessions for new comers to Free/Libre/Open Source Software at #dgplug on

irc.freenode.net [3]. This is the 9th year of this training.

If you are a mentor, or trainer, or prospective enthusiast who would

like to participate in this years' sessions please go through last

years' IRC logs:

http://www.dgplug.org/irclogs/

We will have a review or Q&A session on last years' sessions before we

proceed into new topics, this year.

The session timings are mostly varying, usually after 1800 IST every day.

To participate you need a good internet connection and any latest

Linux installed (Fedora 22/23 preferably ). Anyone can participate.

What we teach?

===============

Through this training we build contributors. Upon completing this training

you will be able to successfully contribute to upstream projects, you will

know the tools used by different upstream projects and yes, we will teach you

how to solve real life problem using Python programming language.

Guest sessions

=============

Through out the training we organize special sessions from well known

upstream contributors. They share their own stories, and take in-depth

sessions on various subjects.

To know more

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[4] is an interview on opensource.com came out last year about this

training. [5] is the talk we had

in PyCon 2014 on the same topic.

How to participate?

====================

If you are interested in participating, please confirm your

participation by filling up this [6] form.

Home page: http://dgplug.org/

Planet: http://planet.dgplug.org/

Wiki: http://dgplug.org/start.html

Mailing list group (for queries, discussions) :

http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org

[1] http://dgplug.org/summertraining16.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat

[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo

[4] http://opensource.com/life/14/6/enroll-now-free-online-open-source-programming-classes

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5YV5KzIbOc

[6] http://goo.gl/forms/F7ahKvJJb9

Thanks,

Chandan Kumar