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Presentation to involve students, teachers and colleges (at institutional level) into Free Software communities, like KDE.TRANSCRIPT
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Libre Software Communities and
UniversitiesGenerating together innovation nodes employability and
technology transfer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix)
19 de diciembre de 2011
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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License
Copyright (C) 2011 Agustin Benito BethencourtPermission is granted to copy distribute andor modify thisdocument under the terms of the GNU Free DocumentationLicense Version 13 or any later version published by the FreeSoftware Foundation with no Invariant Sections no Front-CoverTexts and no Back-Cover Texts
KDEreg and the K Desktop Environmentreg logo are registered
trademarks of KDE eV Rights in Spain are delegated to KDE
Espana
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
The speaker
Agustin Benito Bethencourt (toscalix)
Linkedin profile
Blog in Spanish (included in Planet KDE-es)
Blog in English (included in Planet KDE)
Twitter toscalix
IM toscalixjabberorg IRC toscalix
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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KDE Espana
Legal Spanish association
Trademark agreement with KDE eV
List of Members and statutes
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Contact KDE Espana
Akademy-es KDE Espana annual event
Mailing lists the preferred channel
Planet KDE-es KDE blogs in Spanish
Facebook and Linkedin KDE Espana Group
IRC kde-devel-es in freenodenet
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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FreeLibre Software
Check this blog post with links to definitions and furtherdocumentation (in spanish)
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Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal valuescultural values business goals attitudes or a world view
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and groupdynamics that identify members
Source Liz Straus
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
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Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
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Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
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2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
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Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
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1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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and above all
KDE is
FUN
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A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
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- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
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- Get involved in KDE
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- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
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- Building a relation between KDE and your college
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- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
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- Conclusions
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1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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License
Copyright (C) 2011 Agustin Benito BethencourtPermission is granted to copy distribute andor modify thisdocument under the terms of the GNU Free DocumentationLicense Version 13 or any later version published by the FreeSoftware Foundation with no Invariant Sections no Front-CoverTexts and no Back-Cover Texts
KDEreg and the K Desktop Environmentreg logo are registered
trademarks of KDE eV Rights in Spain are delegated to KDE
Espana
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1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
The speaker
Agustin Benito Bethencourt (toscalix)
Linkedin profile
Blog in Spanish (included in Planet KDE-es)
Blog in English (included in Planet KDE)
Twitter toscalix
IM toscalixjabberorg IRC toscalix
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE Espana
Legal Spanish association
Trademark agreement with KDE eV
List of Members and statutes
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Contact KDE Espana
Akademy-es KDE Espana annual event
Mailing lists the preferred channel
Planet KDE-es KDE blogs in Spanish
Facebook and Linkedin KDE Espana Group
IRC kde-devel-es in freenodenet
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
FreeLibre Software
Check this blog post with links to definitions and furtherdocumentation (in spanish)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal valuescultural values business goals attitudes or a world view
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and groupdynamics that identify members
Source Liz Straus
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
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Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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and above all
KDE is
FUN
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A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
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- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
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- Get involved in KDE
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- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
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- Building a relation between KDE and your college
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- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
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- Conclusions
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trademarks of KDE eV Rights in Spain are delegated to KDE
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4 Conclusions
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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The speaker
Agustin Benito Bethencourt (toscalix)
Linkedin profile
Blog in Spanish (included in Planet KDE-es)
Blog in English (included in Planet KDE)
Twitter toscalix
IM toscalixjabberorg IRC toscalix
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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KDE Espana
Legal Spanish association
Trademark agreement with KDE eV
List of Members and statutes
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Contact KDE Espana
Akademy-es KDE Espana annual event
Mailing lists the preferred channel
Planet KDE-es KDE blogs in Spanish
Facebook and Linkedin KDE Espana Group
IRC kde-devel-es in freenodenet
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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FreeLibre Software
Check this blog post with links to definitions and furtherdocumentation (in spanish)
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Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal valuescultural values business goals attitudes or a world view
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and groupdynamics that identify members
Source Liz Straus
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
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Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
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Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
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Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
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Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
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Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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and above all
KDE is
FUN
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A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
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- Get involved in KDE
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- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
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- Building a relation between KDE and your college
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- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
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- Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
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3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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The speaker
Agustin Benito Bethencourt (toscalix)
Linkedin profile
Blog in Spanish (included in Planet KDE-es)
Blog in English (included in Planet KDE)
Twitter toscalix
IM toscalixjabberorg IRC toscalix
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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KDE Espana
Legal Spanish association
Trademark agreement with KDE eV
List of Members and statutes
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Contact KDE Espana
Akademy-es KDE Espana annual event
Mailing lists the preferred channel
Planet KDE-es KDE blogs in Spanish
Facebook and Linkedin KDE Espana Group
IRC kde-devel-es in freenodenet
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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FreeLibre Software
Check this blog post with links to definitions and furtherdocumentation (in spanish)
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Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal valuescultural values business goals attitudes or a world view
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and groupdynamics that identify members
Source Liz Straus
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
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Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
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Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
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Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
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Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
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Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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and above all
KDE is
FUN
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A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
The speaker
Agustin Benito Bethencourt (toscalix)
Linkedin profile
Blog in Spanish (included in Planet KDE-es)
Blog in English (included in Planet KDE)
Twitter toscalix
IM toscalixjabberorg IRC toscalix
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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KDE Espana
Legal Spanish association
Trademark agreement with KDE eV
List of Members and statutes
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Contact KDE Espana
Akademy-es KDE Espana annual event
Mailing lists the preferred channel
Planet KDE-es KDE blogs in Spanish
Facebook and Linkedin KDE Espana Group
IRC kde-devel-es in freenodenet
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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FreeLibre Software
Check this blog post with links to definitions and furtherdocumentation (in spanish)
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Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal valuescultural values business goals attitudes or a world view
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and groupdynamics that identify members
Source Liz Straus
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
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Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
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Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
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Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
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Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
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Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
The speaker
Agustin Benito Bethencourt (toscalix)
Linkedin profile
Blog in Spanish (included in Planet KDE-es)
Blog in English (included in Planet KDE)
Twitter toscalix
IM toscalixjabberorg IRC toscalix
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE Espana
Legal Spanish association
Trademark agreement with KDE eV
List of Members and statutes
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Contact KDE Espana
Akademy-es KDE Espana annual event
Mailing lists the preferred channel
Planet KDE-es KDE blogs in Spanish
Facebook and Linkedin KDE Espana Group
IRC kde-devel-es in freenodenet
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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FreeLibre Software
Check this blog post with links to definitions and furtherdocumentation (in spanish)
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Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal valuescultural values business goals attitudes or a world view
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and groupdynamics that identify members
Source Liz Straus
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
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Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
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Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
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Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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and above all
KDE is
FUN
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A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE Espana
Legal Spanish association
Trademark agreement with KDE eV
List of Members and statutes
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Contact KDE Espana
Akademy-es KDE Espana annual event
Mailing lists the preferred channel
Planet KDE-es KDE blogs in Spanish
Facebook and Linkedin KDE Espana Group
IRC kde-devel-es in freenodenet
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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FreeLibre Software
Check this blog post with links to definitions and furtherdocumentation (in spanish)
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Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal valuescultural values business goals attitudes or a world view
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and groupdynamics that identify members
Source Liz Straus
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
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Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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and above all
KDE is
FUN
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A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE Espana
Legal Spanish association
Trademark agreement with KDE eV
List of Members and statutes
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Contact KDE Espana
Akademy-es KDE Espana annual event
Mailing lists the preferred channel
Planet KDE-es KDE blogs in Spanish
Facebook and Linkedin KDE Espana Group
IRC kde-devel-es in freenodenet
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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FreeLibre Software
Check this blog post with links to definitions and furtherdocumentation (in spanish)
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Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal valuescultural values business goals attitudes or a world view
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and groupdynamics that identify members
Source Liz Straus
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
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Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
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Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
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Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
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Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
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Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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and above all
KDE is
FUN
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A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Contact KDE Espana
Akademy-es KDE Espana annual event
Mailing lists the preferred channel
Planet KDE-es KDE blogs in Spanish
Facebook and Linkedin KDE Espana Group
IRC kde-devel-es in freenodenet
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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FreeLibre Software
Check this blog post with links to definitions and furtherdocumentation (in spanish)
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Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal valuescultural values business goals attitudes or a world view
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and groupdynamics that identify members
Source Liz Straus
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
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Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
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Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
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Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
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Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
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Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
FreeLibre Software
Check this blog post with links to definitions and furtherdocumentation (in spanish)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal valuescultural values business goals attitudes or a world view
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and groupdynamics that identify members
Source Liz Straus
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
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Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
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Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
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Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
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Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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and above all
KDE is
FUN
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A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
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- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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FreeLibre Software
Check this blog post with links to definitions and furtherdocumentation (in spanish)
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Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal valuescultural values business goals attitudes or a world view
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and groupdynamics that identify members
Source Liz Straus
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
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Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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and above all
KDE is
FUN
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A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
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- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
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- Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
FreeLibre Software
Check this blog post with links to definitions and furtherdocumentation (in spanish)
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Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal valuescultural values business goals attitudes or a world view
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and groupdynamics that identify members
Source Liz Straus
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
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Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
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Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
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Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
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Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
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Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal valuescultural values business goals attitudes or a world view
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and groupdynamics that identify members
Source Liz Straus
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
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Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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and above all
KDE is
FUN
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A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
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- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience offering an advanced graphical desktop a widevariety of applications for communication work education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon
Further information in KDErsquos website
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Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
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Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
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Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
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Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
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Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Freedom
Standards
Open and free formats and protocols
No software patents
Free licenses GPL compatible licenses
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Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Identity
KDE is a technical focused project
We are passionate about what we do
We look for new solutions to classic challenges AkonadiPhonon Nepomuk Solid Plasma widgets activitiespanels and folder views etc
KDE is integration and elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 1973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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and above all
KDE is
FUN
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A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
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- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
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- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model
Meritocratic Oligarchy
KDE structure and organization
KDE Code of Conduct
Community Working Group
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Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
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Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A legal entity
KDE eV is a legal foundation based in Germany
Local Associations KDE Espana KDE India KDE Braziletc
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiumsFSF FSFe OIN and others
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 AboutThe speakerKDE EspanaKDE
Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE Software
KDE 474
KDE Platform
KDE Workspaces
KDE Applications
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
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Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
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Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
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Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
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Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
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Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
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and above all
KDE is
FUN
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A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
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Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
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- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
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- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
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- Building a relation between KDE and your college
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- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
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- Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices but the sametechnology
Plasma Desktop 474 for PC laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 474 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and smartphones(Atom and ARM)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different environments
Users power users special and regular users
Education
Business environments
Big deployments in Portugal Brazil Germany FranceIndia Spain India etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
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RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform
Linux based distributions OpenSuse Kubuntu MandrivaArch Linux Linux Mint Knoppix Caixa MagicaBardinux NetRunner OS etc
KDE on Windows yes it works
FreeBSD Mac OS X MER MeeGo etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do adapted toyour skills
Learningteaching is in KDE DNA
A natural way to learn other languages
KDE members come from all over the world differentcultures
You are welcome even if you are not a software developer
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 2973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
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- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
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- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Low entry level
Contribute
Junior Jobs for newbies
GSoC GC-In and Season of KDE
Local support KDE Spain website
KDE Spain IRC channel kde-devel-es in freenodenetKDE Spain Mailing lists
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code
That code can be shipped in many distributions somillions of users will depend on it
Your code is affected by others decisions You must standfor your ideas
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams
Complex Release processes Fixed release cycles
MultiX Product (X=device platform languages)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers
Related with many other relevant free software projects
Many use cases Software adapted to many environments
Develop in different programming languages C++Python Ruby Javascript QML
Use many different first class development tools
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature softwareproduct
Release cycles Stability
Bug reporting Bug squads
Participation in decision making processes
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Exposure
What you do is public
KDE Sources
The Dot
Planet KDE
Events
Mailing lists IRC channels social networks
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Impact
Your work affects your teammates
KDE depends on you So do the entire KDE ecosystem
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millionsof users
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students because
Awesome learning environmentBecome a professional collaborating in KDEKDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world I
KDE EventsDesktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit2 Berlin Desktop Summit
AkademyCamp KDEConfKDEinAkademy-es Akademy-fr etc
Sprints
KDE SprintsSprints in Spain
1 Forge (Solid Sprint) Madrid 2010 and 20112 KDE-Edu Sprint Bilbao 2011
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 3973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events FOSDEM LinuxTagLinuxCon FISL OSCON Cebit Latinoware etc
National Free Software events Campus Party LSWCrsquo10LSWCrsquo11 etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers smart-phones and tablets AndroidBlackberry mer etc
New environmentsdevices cars and other embeddedsystems
Web ownCloud web services
KDE on Windows
KDE Frameworks 5
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people
Your work is relevant to others
The development process is relevant to KDE memberswe enjoy working on KDE
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as alaboratory but with real users
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previouscase
Teachers work with their students have a big impact onthem and in KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
RampD projects involvement
FP7 program ALERT Twitter alertfp7
New fields of study software development communitiesgovernance free software ecosystem technical issues etc
KDE have relations with other Universities corporationsand RampD oriented organizations
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
2 Get involved in KDEKDE is great for college students becauseTeachers should get involved in KDE becauseUniversities as institutions should promote Free SoftwareCommunities as KDE because
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
We share common values
Freedom as universal value
Knowledge
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences
Innovation as a basic needrequirement
Sharing as a requirement for progress
Generating an environment of equal opportunity
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 4973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
and many more not so big but equally relevant KDABCollabora KolabSys Canonical Mandriva FOX Elektronix -Fux etc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Spanish companies too
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Grupo Opentia
Castinfo
You can also contact KDE Espana or KDE
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
and once you get technical skills run your own business
UFO Coders
Wadobo Software
Froglogic
KO
BasysKom
OwnCloud Inc
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has noartificial limitations
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the globalecosystem
There are examples already Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition costUniversity as a tester
Local companies can become part of KDE global businessecosystem
KDE needs local support
University as a local reference for a global networking
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate uswith students
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)2 Season of KDE (SoK)3 Google Code-In (GC-In)
Toulouse University experience
Research projects
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program
KDE defines contents and executes it
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information2011 report (3 articles)
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011 47 finishedsuccessfully
FAQ about GSoC
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program
Shorter than GSoC and without funding but totallyworth it from the teaching and the impact perspective
It shares several procedures with GSoC
It is in progress
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 5973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants
Similar idea than GSoC GCin rules
KDE propose tasks and mentors
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students)
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens a KDEdeveloper
References
Berlin Desktop Summit Wersquore a family How five yearsof University Collaboration changed our town landscape
Akademy 2010 Toulouse University 40 - Fourth seasongreat debriefing
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Three years ofcollaboration with Toulouse University
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About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science andor otherareas (Art Education PhilologyTranslation andInterpreter etc)
KDE Espana and KDE
ASOLIF and the regional Association
Local KDE developers and users LoCo
Testing environment
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6373
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Roles needed
College teacher
Student
KDE mentors
Local company
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6473
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Projects
FCP
PhD
Internship programs
Internal projects
RampD project
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6573
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
3 Building a relation between KDE and your collegeExperiencesResourcesStrategy
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6673
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to becomeKDE Developers
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build anetwork of organizations around our Community
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program thatincludes companies is one of KDE future challenges
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6773
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachersand students)
Organize KDE promotional events in collaboration withKDE Spain and local companies install parties talkssprints
Create a testingproduction environment
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers andstudents GSoC SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012
Coordinate efforts
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6873
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Outline
1 About
2 Get involved in KDE
3 Building a relation between KDE and your college
4 Conclusions
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 6973
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
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- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
KDE offers
1 Learning environment
2 An interesting professional future
3 RampD environment
4 Worldwide project
5 Good software
6 Open ecosystem
7 Business network
8 Expertise Freedom Integration Elegance
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7073
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
and above all
KDE is
FUN
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7173
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
A relation with KDE offers
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy
2 Hiring platform
3 An real first class innovation environment
4 Internationalization
5 A product to build local services upon
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDEdoes
7 Business opportunities
8 A new approach to solve classic problems manyUniversities have
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7273
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-
About Get involved in KDE Building a relation between KDE and your college Conclusions
Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE
Join The Game
Agustın Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) mdash Libre Software Communities and Universities 7373
- About
-
- The speaker
- KDE Espantildea
- KDE
-
- Get involved in KDE
-
- KDE is great for college students because
- Teachers should get involved in KDE because
- Universities as institutions should promote Free Software Communities as KDE because
-
- Building a relation between KDE and your college
-
- Experiences
- Resources
- Strategy
-
- Conclusions
-