I Know What You Are Going To Do This Summer 15
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Do you want to see your name next time you install GNU/Linux in your friend's computer?

Online summer training from `Linux Users Group of Durgapur <http://dgplug.org>`_. All are welcome.

Entry Free!

This is the 13th year of the training. Our goal is to bring in more upstream contributors to various
FOSS projects. Through this training we show the path of becoming an upstream contributor. The training
lasts for almost 3 months, sessions are generally at 18:30 IST onwards.


Probable Starting Time
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30th June 2020, 18:30 IST

Objectives
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- Revisiting programming fundamentals
- Get acquainted with Free Software technologies
- Gaining technical knowledge
- Real-world project experience

Speciality
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- Online reading material will be provided.
- Talks given by different international upstream developers.
- Direct interaction with the developers.
- Soft skill training (online communications).

List of courses
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- Communication skills
- Introduction to shell
- Basic system administration
- Buffer editors (Vi)
- Free Software project guidelines
- Code cross-referencing tools
- Documentation
- Source code management systems (Git)
- How to make computer to do your work? (We speak Python to do so).

What is required to join this training/Pre-requisites
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- A computer with any recent GNU/Linux distribution installed (We prefer Fedora 31/32).
- A decent Internet connection.
- Attitude to learn.
- Go through previous years' IRC session `logs <http://dgplug.org/irclogs/>`_.

Guest sessions
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Through out this training we get many upstream contributors giving special sessions. The topics
for these sessions varies a lot, starting from personal stories about how they started contributing, to
software licenses, documentation projects etc.

Below is a probable list of guest speakers in 2020.

Contact
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Sayan Chowdhury <sayanchowdhury2012 AT gmail DOT com>


How to join?
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Fill `this google form <https://bit.ly/dgplugsummertraining2020>`_.

Mailing List
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- http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org.

IRC
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- #dgplug on irc.freenode.net

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Signed-off-by: Sayan Chowdhury <5f0367a2b3b757615b57f51d912cf16f2c0ad827@gmail.com>
