Speaker Name | Anant Narayanan | |
Organization | Malaviya National Institute of Technology | |
Type | Talk | |
Scope | General | |
Slides | Click to download | |
Making Gentoo Tick |
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Abstract | Gentoo is widely acknowledged as one of the two most popular truly community-driven Linux distributions. In this talk, we'll be taking a look at what actually drives the community to work and better Gentoo, everyday. We'll see why you will find it exciting to contribute to Gentoo, and briefly look at the different areas in which you can do so. The talk will be roughly divided into 4 sections: 1) A brief overview of Gentoo Linux, it's underlying technologies and methodology. 2) The "Gentoo Way", what makes it different from the other GNU/Linux distributions out there. 3) Becoming a part of the community, how you can get involved with Gentoo, TODAY! 4) A discussion of the user-relations, overlays, documentation, forums and artwork projects, all of which are designed to bridge the gap between users and developers, and help users to become contributors. If you're a Gentoo user, you'll want to attend this talk to be able to find out how you can contribute to your favorite distribution. If you're not a Gentoo user, attend it nevertheless, and allow me to convince you to switch! |
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Pre-requisites | None. | |
Speaker Profile | Anant is a student at the Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur. He is actively involved as a developer in several open source projects such as Gentoo Linux, PHP-GTK, PEAR and GNU Parted; besides a few of his own. He has successfully participated twice in the Google Summer of Code, the latest edition of which got him involved with the Plan 9 from Bell Labs community. Anant is also a technical writer, and has written several articles on FOSS related topics in a variety of international magazines; besides conducting tutorials at local user groups and contributing documentation to free software projects. | |