This slide is for the talk I gave at FOSS.in, Bangalore, India at Fedora Mini Conf.

1. Fedora Students Contributing
Fedora KDE Netbook Remix
Presented by
Aditya Patawari
Fedora Ambassador, Packager and Netbook Remix Maintainer
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2. Topics
1. Fedora Students Contributing
a. What is FSC?
b. Why should I go for it?
c. How to succeed in FSC?
2. Fedora KDE Netbook Remix
a. Why was it required?
b. Problems Faced
c. Friends of a Contributor

3. Fedora Students
Contributing
a. k. a.
Fedora Summer Coding

4. What is FSC?
Program to encourage student contribution
Opportunity for students to collaborate
To get more code released under GPL and
other compatible licenses
To share the spirit of freedom

5. Why FSC?
Chance to work on large code bases
You own what you do
Collaborate with professionals
Non – Coding projects like Musician's Guide
Work on upstream projects
T-shirt, certificate and Monies ;-)

6. How To Get In?
Know your interests and stronghold
Do some research
Talk to people
Join mailing lists and discuss
Prepare to be grilled and neglected
DON'T GIVE UP!

7. Fedora KDE Netbook Remix

8. The Need
Something which is Netbook Centric
Lesser irrelevant apps like k3b
Navigation made easy
Less menus and more searches

9. What We Built
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10. Problems Faced
How to enable the Netbook Workspace?
Too many apps in a single package like
kdemultimedia
Community opinion on package splitting

11. Friends of a Contributor
IRC
Mailing lists
Discussion Groups
Search Engine
Your Mentor

12. Questions?
Contact:
adimania@fedoraproject.org