OPEN Community
The OPEN (Open Source Practices to Educate Nation) is an initiative taken by the students of University of Petroleum and Energy Studies in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India under the guidance of faculty. It is an open community, initiated by UPES. In an open community, generally anyone from around the globe can contribute and be a part of that community. [1] Communities are a matter of collaborative efforts by people. The software made by any open community is distributed under a free license. [2] For contributions to happen in a community, spreading awareness among people is essential. Contributing to open source through an open source community has several benefits. It attracts talent as generally those people work on an open source project who are really interested and talented to do so. Lower maintenance cost is another driving factor here. Also, in open source projects, new ideas come from the contributors so the contributors decide the direction in which the open source project will go. [3]
The OPEN community aims at providing impetus to Open source Technology Practices in the entire nation with its theme - "Aware… Adopt… Contribute". [4]
Introduction
| OPEN Community | |
| Motto | Aware… Adopt… Contribute |
| Established | February, 2019 |
| Type | Open Source Community |
| Association with | Linux Foundation |
| Supporting Partners | Software Technology Parks of India, IBM, XebiaLabs, Tecmint, Feeding Trends |
| Initiated by | University of Petroleum and Energy Studies |
| Website | https://upesopen.org/index.html |
The theme of OPEN brings to the knowledge of people about its roles and responsibilities:
- Aware – It aims at spreading awareness about the advantages of using Open source software over conventional Proprietary software.
- Adopt – Motivating people to adopt Open Source Software is essential as just awareness isn't enough.
- Contribute – The Open Source Software revolves around a community and thus, contribution is a matter of prestige. [5]
Motives
OPEN community, inaugurated in February, 2019; [6] aims at promoting and protecting Open Source Software. This can be done by educating people about open source development. Various technical activities can be used to make people aware about open source development. The educational systems have to be provided with new ideas and a platform is to be provided to minimize the gap between academia and industry. Also, solutions should be provided to society regarding its problems and challenges.
Commitments
OPEN community's commitment emphasizes on creating and opening the network effect where collaborative work is used by the resources and associations that adopt them.
It aims to accomplish the vision where an individual can contribute in the world of Open Source. It is a public benefit community; to promote affordable and secure open source practices that ultimately provide economic benefits to society globally.
Events
The OPEN community organises certain events at the national level. [7] However, this is not a prime role of OPEN.
Projects
OPEN community will work on several projects for collaborative development. [8]
Support
The OPEN community, UPES is in association with The Linux Foundation.. [9]
It has supporting partners as:
References
- ↑ "Definition Open Community". Open Community Approach.
- ↑ "Open community approach - Wikiversity". en.wikiversity.org.
- ↑ "Why contribute to open source". www.linuxfoundation.org.
- ↑ "About Us". upesopen.org.
- ↑ "About Us". upesopen.org.
- ↑ "Inauguration ceremony of OPEN". upes.ac.in.
- ↑ "Competitions, Quizzes, Hackathos, Scholarships and Internships for Students". dare2compete.com.
- ↑ "OPEN". GitHub.
- ↑ "Linux Foundation members". linuxfoundation.org.
- ↑ "UPES and IBM partnership". business-standard.com.
- ↑ Crew, F. T. "Mobile App Innovation Challenge 2019 By OPEN & The Linux Foundation Has Cash Prizes Worth 15 Lacs". feedingtrends.com.
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