
Students
We are in the process of organizing students and faculty from colleges & universities across the world to collaborate in fulfilling this.
This is an opportunity for the students to
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Learn, research and work with talented students and visionary leaders from colleges, organizations across the world
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Build and maintain meaningful tools and solutions that your friends, family, organizations and governments will use on daily basis
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Gain valuable experience, credits for open source contributions and work opportunities
Roles and activities
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Management: A team that is responsible for high level mangement and activities locally and global level. People from across universities will be there.
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Development: Core group members leading the development/mangement while others contribute. Ex: Developers from IIIT-H could lead development of a chat app in the ecosystem, while another college could be in-charge of calendar, etc.
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Research: Research and publish on technologies and solutions that will contribute towards the goal
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Support: Provide support to community members facing issues.
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Leaderboard: Compete based on LoC, issues solved, questions answered, lines of documentaion, etc.
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Our Infrastructure: We will have our own self-hosted open source infrastructure that we maintain
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Website
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Blog: Host
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Git repository: Gitlab
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Communication: Matrix
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Video conferencing: Jitsi
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Project management: Vikunja
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Notepad: CodiMD
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Forum: Discourse/NodeBB
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Documentation: TBD
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More as we need…
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Weekly sessions: Talks/Training sessions with people in the industry/community. Learn and build your knowledge across development, networking, devops, etc.
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Learning groups: Learn a language/skill from structured learning material along with a group, mentors
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Global Hackathons: Compete and build open source PoCs that solve or fill a gap in the ecosystem and win awards and cash bounties
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Work connect: Internship/placement offers from Open source projects and companies
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Expo: Showcase work done by students from different colleges in our own fest/event
How to get started?
Interact
To ask a question or start a discussion, head over to our forum at https://forum.openw3b.org