conf.kde.in 2015 Program

The essence of the talk shall be using the example of Akshay, a student developer and Devaja, a student dot editor’s journey through KDE; setting forth the 101 guidance or introductory course on the cores of the community and getting involved with it, and also the different facets of contribution that they can be exposed to, and how to go about continuing that bond with the KDE community.

The twist integrated here is of a new take on this journey by exploring it through the eyes of a space traveller set out on a space trek in an entirely new terrain, which is again metaphorical to the journey of a student exposed only to algorithmic coding in his academic course work and how he tackles real world programming via contribution to KDE code. The same applies to the aspect of technical articles as well, which emphasizes how student can leap out of their comfort zone and apply their technical knowledge to help promote the KDE Community via polishing their technical blog posts or writing dot stories and getting involved with the Promo Team.

The various planets in the galaxy are used to signify the various projects and brief the attendees about them so as to get them excited enough about contributing to one amongst them, of their choice.

The space simulation of entering alien terrain and acclimatizing to the atmosphere segment shall talk about fitting in with the community and how to approach the mentors or responsible people and bugs or junior task which shall all help in telling them how to adapt oneself to belong to the community.

The aliens on the planet segment shall talk in brief and introduce a few of the main developer team members and the KDE e.V. Board members and the promo team and KDE Community Members.

The Planetary Activities shall include information about organizing local KDE events in colleges and talk about Akademy and Sprints and other such ways in which the attendees can be involved in both organizing and attending such sessions.
The Boost-Up Pre Launch Training Simulation shall talk about the GSoC and Season of KDE mentoring programs which help them kickstart their contribution process to KDE and will enable them to successfully become an inhabitant of a planet of their choice.

So; basically using the space travel metaphor, the attendees shall be provided with a brief overview of everything there is to be known to get started with contributing to the KDE community.

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Day: 2015-04-18
Start time: 12:20
Duration: 00:40
Track: KDE

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