+1. Regards, Siddhant.
On 1 Jun 2018 6:00 pm, "Siddhant Shenoy" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Saptak, > > It would be great if you give us a brief introduction on how to use IRC > clients (not in IRC obviously). I read about it on the internet, however, > it seems a bit old school and clients have a lot of features. Please > consider this for people who are newbies to IRC clients, like me. > > Thanking you, > Regards, > Siddhant Shenoy. > (An enthusiast) > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2018, 5:54 PM Saptak Sengupta <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > Do you want to see your name next time you install > > GNU/Linux in your friend's computer? Or run some open > > source software or web application with your name as > > an author? > > > > If yes, then continue reading. > > > > We are glad to announce the 11th edition of "I Know What > > You Are Going to Do This Summer" [1], a free (as in freedom), > > online (IRC-based) [2] training programme with sessions for > > new comers to get started with Free/ Libre/ Open Source Software > > at #dgplug on irc.freenode.net [3]. > > > > If you are a mentor, or trainer, or prospective enthusiast who would > > like to participate in this year's sessions please go through last > > year's IRC logs: > > > > http://www.dgplug.org/irclogs/ > > > > This year we will be spending more time on learning about > > ethics in programming and in life and the consequences of the > > code we write. > > > > The session timings are mostly varying, usually after 1900 IST every day. > > > > To participate, you need a good internet connection and any latest > > Linux Distribution installed (Fedora 28 preferably). And an > > attitude to learn. Anyone can participate. > > > > We do get participants from all across the world, so this is real > > chance for you to make friends in the community. > > > > What we teach? > > =============== > > > > Through this training we build contributors. Upon completing this > > training you will be able to successfully contribute to upstream > > projects, you will know the tools used by different upstream > > projects and yes, we will teach you how to solve real life problem > > using Python programming language. > > > > > > Guest sessions > > ============= > > > > Through out the training we organize special sessions from well known > > upstream contributors. They share their own stories, and take in-depth > > sessions on various subjects. > > > > To know more > > ============= > > > > [4] is an interview on opensource.com about this training. [5] is the > > talk we had in PyCon 2014 on the same topic. > > > > > > How to participate? > > ==================== > > > > If you are interested in participating, you just need to join the > > mailing list and the IRC channel. (details given below) > > This training is open to anyone and everyone, so share the news > > among your family and friends. > > > > Probable Starting Time > > ====================== > > 17th June 2018, 19:00 IST > > > > Home page: http://dgplug.org/ > > Planet: http://planet.dgplug.org/ > > Mailing list group (for queries, discussions) : > > http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org > > IRC Channel: #dgplug on Freenode server > > > > [1] https://dgplug.org/summertraining18/ > > <https://dgplug.org/summertraining17/> > > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat > > [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo > > [4] http://opensource.com/life/14/6/enroll-now-free-online-open- > > source-programming-classes > > [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5YV5KzIbOc > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org
