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Frans: It would be a nice idea to discuss, share and collaborate ideas. We
could discuss it off the list.

Kavit Sir: It would be really helpful for us. I would be glad to contact
you. Thanks!


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Frans Thamura <frans at meruvian.org> wrote:

> Hi kavit
>
> Do ur material shareable?
>
> F
> On Oct 22, 2013 10:33 AM, "Kavit Munshi" <kavit at aptira.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Bhavya,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please contact me off list to discuss.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Kavit
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Kavit Munshi
>>
>> Chief Technical Officer
>>
>> EVP Aptira India
>>
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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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
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>>
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Bhavya Jain
B.Tech - CS - Cloud Computing and Virtualization Technology (IBM)
Batch-2011-15
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