Foss: Why should it matter to Students

FOSS
Why should it matter to Students

About Me
Manager, Community & Relations at OSSCube
Contributes to: LibreOffice, Drupal, Mozilla Firefox, Ubuntu, phpBB, Wordpress, and some other projects
Indie Game Developer, Musician, Photographer
kinshuksunil.com
[email_address]

Getting to know
the Audience

What are your fundamental rights?

Right to Equality
maistora/ Colorful Army

Right to Freedom
Kudomomo/ Freedom

Right against Exploitation
Jankie/ Women at a market in Bandarban

Right to Freedom of Religion
Gurumustuk Singh

Right against Discrimination
Pasma/ the ugly duckling

Right to Constitutional Remedies

Human rights?

Rights to Liberty
Rights to Politics
Rights to Welfare
Rights to Equality
Rights to Security
Rights to Due Process
Rights to Group & Ethnicity
zen/ cedar

But We are talking Free Software

Freedom to run the program for any purpose.
ruiwen/ Software Freedom Day, Singapore

Freedom to study how the program works , and change it to make it do what you wish.
ian_munroe/ Codes

Freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbour.
Giant Gingko/ Redistribution

Freedom to improve the program , and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
riebart/ code

Do you ?

A 19 year old Finnish college student started one of the most important open source projects

A 22 year old Belgian student created one of the most popular CMS out there

A 19 year old American student created one of the most popular Blogging Platform

No, he did not create any FOSS software. But, he created one of the largest product-based business powered by FOSS

What was different about them ?

Linus wanted to create a terminal emulator, independent of system hardware. He ended up creating an operating system

Dries was handling a bulletin board and needed something to help him manage it. He ended up writing what grew into Drupal.

When the blogging software that Matt used for hosting his blog died, he forked it to fulfill his software needs. This later became Wordpress.

Mark was building a product that was growing exponentially. He needed efficient software to power the Facebook.

In Short: They all had an itch

What the freedoms can do for you?

You can run the software

You get access to source code

You can explore how theories are implemented in real

You can explore algorithms and system logic

You can explore system design

The license ensures that

GNU Public License and derivatives Apache License Simplified/Modified BSD License MIT License Many other licenses

The only thing Free Software cannot ensure is: Do you have the itch ?

What to do with the itch ?

Pick* up a FOSS project * Don't reinvent the wheel

Contribute! Contribute! Contribute!

Why Contribute ?

Learn Programming Languages

Learn Software Development concepts

Learn Software Architecture

Build Skillsets

Get a Job in Google* !

* There is no shortage of opportunities for talented people in any field of endeavour What is important is: Do you deserve it?

Contribute ?

Source Code Bug Reports Patch Reviews

Documentation Localisation

Help & Support

Spread the word

Use the Software Respect It Love It

FOSS can ensure the Freedom But you have to be Free!

Wake up!
contact me at [email_address]

This whole presentation was made in an insane race against time and so I have not been able to research all my facts. I hope, I did not get anything wrong. This presentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike License. I'll be glad if you find uses for it

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Foss: Why should it matter to Students

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