Islington Open Source Community Orientation
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- 1. Islington Open Source Community Orientation (Special Edition) Date: Monday 22nd April, 2013 Time: 3:00 pm Venue: Westminster Palace
- 2. Agenda • Introduction to Islington Open source Community. • What it has. • What we want from you.
- 3. Islington Open Source Community Islington Open source community is a virtual structure of students, faculties and open source experts, which work for knowledge sharing and capacity building of various Open source products, and tools. Moreover, it acts as a joint platform for all existing open source groups and forums.eg. GDG, Mozilla, PHP, Python, Ruby.
- 4. What’s in it? • Conducting training/workshops for various open source products. • Calling experts on specific area for knowledge sharing. • Organizing college/national/international level seminars events on open source.
- 5. Who will be Here! • Google Developers Group (GDG). • Mozilla Nepal Foundation. • Nepali Wikipedia (ne.wikipedia.org). • Free Open Source Society (FOSS) Nepal. • PHP Developers Nepal. • Anroid Developers.
- 6. What we want from you. Active participation
- 7. What are we starting with?? “FOSS Ka Kura” Friday 3:00 pm