[fedora-my] Fedora-MY Bug #0

[BRIAN RITCHIE]

That's great. What we can do in this case is formalize this into a course
module, part-time or summer project for local universities. Similar to GSOC,
we can implement a smaller scale tutorial form with proper end goals for
students in unis or even high school if we are ambitious enough and have
adequate resources. Thoughts ? Community ?

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Izhar Firdaus <kagesenshi.87 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:53 PM, BRIAN RITCHIE
> <esqbrianritchie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Kage,
> >
> >  If I may add. We can also take another route to resolve bug #0. We need
> to
> > encourage participation and not merely usage. The challenge of Asia or at
> > least SEA at this point is we are heavy consumers but not contributors
> > particularly b/c we are using not participating.
>
> exactly ... we have a lot of consumers here .. but lack of
> contributors ... and most of the local activities so far, are focused
> in getting more consumers rather than contributors ..
>
> and imo, our group should focus in fixing this bug ..  as theres no
> group (that i've seen so far) try to assess this issue ..
>
> >
> >  We perhaps need to take a hands-on approach as well to this issue. One
> > such example we can emulate is Damn Vulnerable Linux. What they do is
> > produce a unpatched ISO of a certain distro for users to download and
> > attempt to hack on, which actually invites the user to not only use but
> > engage with the distro.
>
> DSL is created for a different - computer security related - purpose .. :)
>
> >
> >   Perhaps we can identify the Fedora strong points and create such
> > hackathons/day-0/patch writing competitions with universities to
> encourage
> > students to work on real issues. I am sure we can organise such sessions
> > with the help of Fedora where the patches can be submitted reviewed and
> > approved for use thus encouraging students to indirectly contribute/train
> > more towards such goals.
>
> Your idea is quite close to what I've been thinking for quite some time :)
>
> Barcamp Melaka is my first (personal) milestone to start getting
> contributors ...
>
> 'with the help of Fedora' .. that would be us :P .. we also need to
> sharpen up our own technical skills in this.... currently from the
> current situation, I'm quite alone whenever it comes to Fedora related
> technology skills ... (eg, writing yum plugins, understanding rpm and
> repositories, knowing some of the codes of some of the internal tools,
> knowing the Fedora infrastructure and libs related to it) ...
>
> So, what I'm planning now, try to guide/get more people who can work
> on these stuff  ... not sure how many i would get though , as so far,
> several had given up ..  but 1 is always better than 0 ..
>
> RPM Packaging is a start .. anybody going to Barcamp Melaka? :P
>
> >
> > What say you ?
> >
> > -BRIAN RITCHIE
> >
>
>
>
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