FOSS Orientation
Contents
1 Objective
2 Venue, Date and Time
3 Target Group
4 Program Agenda
5 College Coordination Committee
5.1 Members
5.2 Responsibilities
5.3 Role of College Coordination Committee
6 College Committee
6.1 What
6.2 How
7 References
The main objective of the orientation will be to make the new students from different colleges aware about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and its benefits. We will also brief them about our plans for the upcoming SFD and how they could contribute/participate in the event.
Please spread about this to others who you think are new to FOSS and might be interested.
Venue: Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka, Lalitpur
Date: August 7, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 4 pm - 6 pm
Target Group
Students (especially new to FOSS) from various colleges and universities.
Expected number of participants: 40-50
| S.No. | Topic | Presenter | Time Duration |
| 1 | Introduction to FOSS Philosophy | Jitendra Harlalka | 10 min |
| 2 | Introduction to FOSS Nepal Community | Subir Bd. Pradhanang | 10 min |
| 3 | Application Demo & Alternatives | Prabin Gautam | 20 min |
| 4 | Migration to FOSS | Bibek Paudel | 15 min |
| 5 | SFD '08 & Call for Volunteers | Abhishek Singh | 15 min |
Contact Person: Mr. Sharad Bhusal (9841-461390)
College Coordination Committee
On 7th August 2008, the College Coordination Committee (CCC) was formed. Members of this committee were selected from among the participants of the Orientation Program organized on the same day. CCC will expand as more colleges and individuals start joining in.
One or two members from each college.
The basis for selection were:
- Participation in the orientation program
- Communication/leadership/inter-personal skills
- FOSS awareness
Bibekpaudel 04:38, 6 August 2008 (CDT)
Communications and artwork wing: Website, wiki, artwork, documentation, brochures, promotion campaigns, radio programs, a/v material, newspaper articles etc.
Financial and Housekeeping wing: Fund generation, deal with sponsors, record keeping, auditing, disseminate fund, coordinate with FOSS Nepal and college committees, bring more members.
Expert wing: Technical knowhow, sysadmins, programmers, help the college committees by training, providing assistance in server maintenance and installfests/hackfests etc., design technical programs, develop products/packages- long term plan.
Role of College Coordination Committee
i. Acting as the contact point for all the colleges and college committees.
ii. Bridging the communication between the grass root community at colleges and the FOSS Nepal team.
iii. Help in forming and expanding the College Committees in various colleges.
iv. Help in growing the community by reaching colleges which don't have representation in the Coordination Committees.
v. Work as the OutReach Extension of FOSS Nepal.
vi. Help implement and deploy the programs and plans of FOSS Nepal, by:
- generating funds (next point)
- mobilizing volunteers
- forming and involving core groups (artwork, documentation, etc)
- bringing awareness/spreading news
- collecting feedback/criticism
- involve/mobilize the community
- generate funds through:
- memberships
- fund raising programs
- sponsorships/advertisements/partnerships
- donation campaigns
- sales of franchise/goods/services/products
vii. Identify, formulate and implement programs, policies and plan related to FOSS
viii. Help the college committees through expert advice and support, inter and intra community exchange-programs, communications programs etc.
College Committee
- There will be a college committee (CC) in each of the colleges represented in the College Coordination Committee (CCC). The CCC will be the umbrella committee of all the CCs. The network of CCs will be the community strength of FOSS Nepal. Ideally, each CC will have at least one member in the CCC.
- CCs can be named after the respective college, preferably with one of these as prefix or suffix: LUG, GLUG, FOSS Nepal, FOSS Nepal Chapter.
- CCs will be independent to decide on their own structure, style of working and programs.
- Form a core committee and distribute responsibilities.
- Help/motivate the members (and labs, libraries, administration of college ?) migrate to non-proprietary systems.
- Organize installfests, competitions on programming, scripting, sysadmin, designing, artwork etc.
- Organize classes/seminars to introduce FOSS and GNU/Linux in college and/or locality.
- Publish magazines (off/online), newsletters, etc on FOSS.
- Maintain local repository of distros and popular packages (install Freedom Toaster? ).
- Maintain mailing list, website, forum, wiki of the college community (should this be separate from FOSS Nepal or not ?).
- Organize discussion/training programs related to localization, packaging, open source development methods etc.
- Organize quizzes etc related to FOSS.
http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=College_Coordination_Committee
