Winter Camp 2013

Workshop Proposal Document 

Objectives



 * 1) Strengthen the currently active glug members
 * 2) Reach out to more people through the existing

Content

 * Focus will be on increasing technical skills, grooming resource persons

Plan 1

 * Conventional
 * Multiple Sessions
 * Conducted serially, one after the other
 * All participants go through all topics

Plan 2

 * Course-like parallel sessions
 * Divided into multiple batches
 * Each batch focuses only on one selected area of interest
 * Each batch may have limited seats

Suggestions for Technical Topics

 * Following is the format of the technical sessions during the 5 day winter workshop:

1) One hour daily on FOSS Contribution May be 8:00 to 9:00
 * 1) Filing/Traiging bugs in free software
 * 2) Accessing the source code/Understanding code -revisioning
 * 3) Running a application by building the source code
 * 4) Modifying source code, submitting patches
 * 5) Localization
 * 2) After that atleast 7-8 hours of actual technical topic,? 9:00 to 17:00 (half an hour for lunch)

Same sessions for all Basic Session
 * First one is to have same sessions for all the students with following topics for 5 days
 * Second one is to have two streams, Basic and Intermediate . Following are the topics for the students

Intermediate Session


 * 3) One hour industry person session in the evening (5:30-6:30)


 * 1) Start-ups basedon free software


 * 1) People from the industry who are sys-admins


 * 1) Someone from a reputed MNC company to talk about how mainstream industry is also moving to free software, We can even get Amazon to talk about how their cloud is running on free software


 * 1) Free software and research

Non Technical Content

 * Arts
 * Performances by participants
 * Art workshop
 * Theatre Workshop
 * Sports & Games
 * Campfire

Dates : Options

 * 1) Jan 26 - Jan 30 - PESIT gets hit
 * 2) 9 - 13 January 2013

Venue : Options


Registration Fee Proposed: Rs. 1500/-

Mobilization

 * Current Capacities
 * Deadlines
 * Challenges?