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Hi kavit

Do ur material shareable?

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On Oct 22, 2013 10:33 AM, "Kavit Munshi" <kavit at aptira.com> wrote:

> Hello Bhavya,
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> I am the co-organiser of the Indian OpenStack User group and would be
> happy to get you guys started. We are in the process of creating a set of
> materials to give out to universities and help foster openstack growth. We
> have held suck seminars and workshops at several colleges already and are
> happy to come and give talks at your college to help you get started.
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> Please contact me off list to discuss.
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> Regards,
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> Kavit
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> *From:* Bhavya Jain [mailto:bsjcloud at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 22 October 2013 08:55
> *To:* Stefano Maffulli
> *Cc:* community at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* Re: [openstack-community] Student Chapters at Universities
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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.
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>
> wrote:
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> 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.
>
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> > 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
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