Speaker
Description
The India Open Source space is an amazing place, a place where there is a lot of potential but is not being optimally used.
From people still calling Linux an OS for hackers, Ditching contributions and volunteering work because of being unpaid, people who want to contribute but are unaware of how to, to people who contribute like no other, India has them all.
So, what can we as a community do, what can we do in our colleges and communities to bring the change? How can we bring a revolution and revolt together!!!!? Okay, that went too far, but really, there are a lot of things that can be done.
In this talk I will be speaking about how I made the change in my college, the hurdles I faced and what I did to overcome them.
How I transitioned them from using CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 16.04 to the latest Linux and started kernel hacking.
How I convinced my department to fund my initiatives and bring the change. And how we made them more aware of their software choices and what they could do to have a more open computing experience.
Let's walk together on my journey to the revolt, I mean efforts ;)
| Category | Encourage new contributors |
|---|---|
| Talk Description | The content speaks everything about the talk, it will be a non-technical community talk which will inspire others of how they can bring new contributors and start open source initiative in their college or workspace. |
| Author(s) Bio | Aryan Kaushik is a final year student pursuing a Bachelor's in Technology with a major in Computer Science. He loves contributing to open source and mentoring people. He is a GNOME Foundation member, a member of the GNOME Internship Committee and was a former GSoC’22 Intern Under the GNOME Foundation, where he worked on the Pitivi project. He was also GSoC'23 Intern under Chromium, current group Lead of the GNOME Users Group, Delhi-NCR and Ubuntu India LoCo, where he conducts events and mentors fellow students regarding FOSS. Aryan was a speaker at GUADEC'22, GNOME Asia'22 and GUADEC'23 and was the lead local team organiser for UbuCon Asia 2024 in Jaipur India. |
| Pronouns | He/Him |
| Where are you located? | Pune, India |
| Do you need travel sponsorship from GNOME Foundation in order to join our event? | Yes |
