Campus Outreach

c4gt-campus-outreach.md

20 Jul'23

Why Campus Outreach is required?

Campus outreach is vital for sustainable C4GT contributions to the community program as it enables engagement with students and fosters awareness of DPGs.

What are the problems we are trying to solve for?

• Currently, less participation in the C4GT Community Program across colleges.
• Lack of awareness about the Community program.
• Students do not find value in contributing to DPGs, because of less stars and awareness of scale (except some popular DPGs).

Possible Solutions and PS points

Introduction of Campus Ambassador Program in Campuses

• Create a separate C4GT campus ambassador program among the colleges.
• Create Campus Ambassadors via Google Developer Student Club.
• Create Campus Ambassadors via GitHub Campus Experts

Questions

• WHat is the role they play?
• What should be the Curriculum?
• Is there any incenetivization?
• 1st year journey of the campus -

Campus Ambassador Curriculum

A tentative list of sessions, and workshops should be created to conduct in a span of year. For Example:

• Introduction to Open Source.
• What are DPGs?

Recognizing Colleges with a branding/partner tag will result in higher contributions

• Appreciating Colleges that have made significant contributions.
• Awarding top 25 colleges annually with DPG Nation Builders award during DPG Conclave/ DPG Summit.
• Linking DPG Products to campuses - The campus takes full responsibility for the DPG dev.
• A mentor with the DPG organisation assigned to the college for enabling development.

International Outreach for universities

• Targeting can be segregated into Indian Universities abroad and Foreign Universities
• Branding done on benefits to community and success stories of DPGs
• Geography and College based targeting of posts through Linkedin promoting CCBP
  • C4GT Page on Linkedin in European Languages to include more diverse coding population
• Leverage Indian Associations at Foreign Universities to promote C4GT as a DPG builder

Aug 2' 23

Why Campus Outreach is required? 🎓

• Continuous sustainable funnel of students for the community program
• Gateway for working professionals
• Diversity Representation by doing outreach in Women's College
• Early skill development
• Brand visibility and recognition
• Long-term talent investment

What are the problems we are trying to solve for? ❓

• Less participation in the C4GT Community Program
• Lack of awareness
• Difference in gender representation

Possible Solutions 🧠

• Introduction of Campus Ambassador Program in Campuses
  • Create a separate C4GT campus ambassador program among the colleges.
  • Create Campus Ambassadors via Google Developer Student Club.
  • Create Campus Ambassadors via GitHub Campus Experts

Note: Currently we are going ahead with Google Developer Student Club (GDSC).

Outcomes

• Level 1 - students solving C4GT community program tickets
• Level 2 - students selected as part of C4GT mentoring cohort
• Level 3 - partnership with Google developer club
• Level 4 - setup C4GT club themselves
• Level 5 - want to / are engaging deeply with a single / set of DPGs

Context setting 📜

Ongoing discussions with Google have shown their keen interest in collaborating with us. They had proposed several innovative ideas for our community's growth and opportunities:

• Developer Student Club
• Collaboration with ONDC accelator program
  • Startup Accelator Program
• Incentivization from Google side (say some free resources like GCP etc)

Developer Student Club 💻

Responsibilities of Student Club Lead 👩‍💼

• Club Management: Oversee club activities and operations.
• Team Building: Recruit and lead a motivated student team. (with equal women participation)
• Event Planning: Organize tech workshops, hackathons, and talks. (some specifically focusing around DPGs, and Community Tickets)
• Community Engagement: Foster an inclusive and active tech community.
• Technical Guidance: Provide mentorship and coding sessions.

Expected Role of 1st / 2nd year college contributor 🎓

• Seeking guidance and upskill themselves on the various tech stacks and VCS through workshops.
• Use tickets as the playground for the application of learned skills.

Action Items from C4GT team 📋

• To have a meet up with club leads to clearly describe their roles and responsibilites.
• Conduct few offline sessions in the colleges.
  • What are digital Public Goods?
  • About Code for GovTech
  • Open Source, Git and GitHub
  • Why someone should contribute and various perks for them to contribute. Perks could be:
    • Contribution to the real world projects.
    • Networking with working professionals
    • Will help building them their GitHub profile and Resume
    • Increment in chances of selection in mentoring program
    • Goodies / swags for the active contributors
• Recognisition to the active leads

Startup Accelator Program 🚀

Google for Startups Accelerator in India provides three-month, equity-free accelerator programs. Selected startups benefit from expert mentorship and support in various areas, including AI/ML, Cloud, UX, Android, Web, Product Strategy, and Growth.

More Information can be found here.

How this can be leverage for the Community Program? ℹ️

• For Upskilling opportunities: The workshops and trainings offered by the program would be a great opportunity for contributors to upskill and learn new skills.
• For Motivation: Serve as the motivation for the contributors to work directly under Google Mentors.
• For Awareness: The program would help to raise awareness about Community Program. This would help to attract new contributors and partners.

Incentivization Model🏆

The two ways to anchor incentivization are:

Quaterly Rewards 🎁

Each Quarter top 3 students basis on their points and contributions can be provided with some goodies. Goodies can be:

• T-shirt
• Diary Pen
• Earphones / Headphones
• Stickers

Redeeming Modal 🛍️

Should be similar to: https://leetcode.com/store/

questions for google development program

• what are the hard goals of the google student development program?
• what does the student club get from google?
• what is the value prop for google to make their leads engage with us?
• does google have similar partnerships with any other orgs?
• in how many colleges is google running this program?