Open Stack

On Mon 21 Oct 2013 08:53:47 AM PDT, Bhavya Jain wrote:
> I would like to know if community supports formation of student
> chapters at Universities to reach out to the students?

I'm sure everybody here thinks those are a good idea :)

Cal State University in San Francisco has a group deploying and testing 
OpenStack in the campus: 
http://commons.sfsu.edu/report-openstack-project-campus. I know this 
group is now working on an Havana-based prototype.

> Being a student I personally feel it would be a good method to reach
> out to the students community.
> If not Student Chapters, then instead of User groups, how would be the
> idea of Interest groups at University level? User groups could be for
> developers.

Well... user groups are for whoever shows up at the meeting, honestly. 
We encourage all coordinators of user groups to check constantly with 
the participants to the meetings to see what topics they would like to 
see covered: if participants ask to touch development issues then offer 
talks about developing OpenStack. But most of the times user groups 
attract people that want to get started *using* openstack, covering 
topics from first deployments, support proof of concepts.

Have you looked at the Howto 
http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackUserGroups/HowTo for user groups? I 
think it has valuable suggestions also for student groups.

/stef

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