Thanks for the suggestions Stefano,
I tried finding relevant information on the User Groups How to page but that gives more information on how to establish and run user groups. I agree general attendees would be people new to *using* openstack but what I am talking of is getting it to University level. Till now, the user groups are responsible for interacting with universities heads and then inviting them over. If we have groups at Universities then it would be very much be possible to organize some events in the universities as well, organized and managed by the interested students and faculties. This may however be limited to basics but still it would help the student community as well.

We at University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India are planning to work in OpenStack, but when it comes to setting up a proper team, there are only 2 or at maximum 4 students actually aware of it. It would be beneficial in every university to bring up such groups so that more interaction and participation is there, as per one of the motive of the Open Source Community.


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano@openstack.org> wrote:
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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