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 faculties. 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 licence.[2] For contributions to happen in a community, spreading awareness among people is must. 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[edit]
| OPEN Community | |
| Motto | Aware… Adopt… Contribute |
| Established | February, 2019 |
| Type | Open Source Community |
| Association with | The Linux Foundation |
| Supporting Partners | STPI, IBM, Xebia, 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 softwares over conventional Proprietary software.
- Adopt – Motivating people to adopt Open Source Softwares is must 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[edit]
OPEN community, inaugurated in February, 2019;[6] aims at promoting and protecting the Open Source Software. This can be done by educating people about the open source development. Various technical activities can be used to aware people about the 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 academy and industry. Also, solutions to be provided to the society regarding its problems and challenges.
Commitments[edit]
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 the society globally.
Events[edit]
The OPEN community organises certain events at the national level.[7] However, this is not a prime role of OPEN.
Projects[edit]
OPEN community will work on several projects for the collaborative development.[8]
Support[edit]
The OPEN community, UPES is in association with The Linux Foundation.[9]
It has supporting partners as:
References[edit]
- ↑ "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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