A look at what FOSS can mean for students - the opportunities and challenges it presents.

3. Contributes to: LibreOffice, Drupal, Mozilla Firefox, Ubuntu, phpBB, Wordpress, and some other projects

4. Indie Game Developer, Musician, Photographer

5. kinshuksunil.com

6. [email_address]

8. What are your fundamental rights?

15. Human rights?

17. Rights to Politics

18. Rights to Welfare

19. Rights to Equality

20. Rights to Security

21. Rights to Due Process

22. Rights to Group & Ethnicity zen/ cedar

23. But We are talking Free Software

28. Do you ?

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

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

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

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

33. What was different about them ?

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

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

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

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

38. In Short: They all had an itch

39. What the freedoms can do for you?

40. You can run the software

41. You get access to source code

42. You can explore how theories are implemented in real

43. You can explore algorithms and system logic

44. You can explore system design

45. The license ensures that

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

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

48. What to do with the itch ?

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

50. Contribute! Contribute! Contribute!

51. Why Contribute ?

52. Learn Programming Languages

53. Learn Software Development concepts

54. Learn Software Architecture

55. Build Skillsets

56. Get a Job in Google* !

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

58. Contribute ?

59. Source Code Bug Reports Patch Reviews

60. Documentation Localisation

61. Help & Support

62. Spread the word

63. Use the Software Respect It Love It

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

66. 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