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Notes, photo and profile for panel discussion on open source communities in DCM
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Goals

  • Understanding the community India vs global

  • Enabling traction for stakeholders

  • Building a community for the future

Notes

  • Emphasize the importance on value of being part of community

  • Community first, framework next, platform or programming language finally

  • Be open to other communities, introduce them, make them comfortable

  • Curators need to introduce and create the culture of open

  • Culture of Open is not just about free software, it's about contributing to humanity and improving lives

  • Contribution need not be limited to the code and can be extended to StackOverflow, blogs, social conversations

  • Be open to inviting other communities & understanding their work. Unite for the open movement & celebrate contributions.

  • People are the main stakeholders of a community. People need to curate communities. Not organizations.

Points for panel

  • What makes people to come together?

  • Why do we need communities?

  • Understanding stakeholders & positioning their value

  • Goals, understanding existing communities (not just software)

  • How to enable an engaging experience for all those involved?

  • Sustaining the effort and the spark that brought all together

  • Summary, collaboration and action

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Profile

Prashant is the Founder of Pisutra, the startup behind Devthon. He is an electrical engineer by education and loves to hack electronics, maps, web & design. He follows spaces missions & renewable energy devotedly.

Before founding Pisutra, he was working on technology in startups, on Java, Python, C, Android and telephony scripting. In the previous startup, he built a speech recognition product that for indic languages. He was also part of IEEE, the world's largest professional organization, where he volunteered for their educational initiatives. Through these initiatives, he curated communities and led teams that focused on nurturing these communities across geographies in India.

He is currently catering to the need of an innovation ecosystem.

Image

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kmbr3xeyov8erpa/prashant.png

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