[openstack-community] Student Chapters at Universities

Frans Thamura frans at meruvian.org
Tue Oct 22 03:53:30 UTC 2013


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for openstack, we are new here.

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On Oct 22, 2013 10:51 AM, "Bhavya Jain" <bsjcloud at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Kavit Munshi
>>>
>>> Chief Technical Officer
>>>
>>> EVP Aptira India
>>>
>>> 1800 APTIRA
>>>
>>> +61 2 8030 2333
>>>
>>> +91 971 292 9850
>>>
>>> @aptira
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *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
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Bhavya Jain
>>>
>>> B.Tech - CS - Cloud Computing and Virtualization Technology (IBM)
>>>
>>> Batch-2011-15
>>>
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>
>
> --
> Bhavya Jain
> B.Tech - CS - Cloud Computing and Virtualization Technology (IBM)
> Batch-2011-15
>
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