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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 at 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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>



-- 
Bhavya Jain
B.Tech - CS - Cloud Computing and Virtualization Technology (IBM)
Batch-2011-15
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