[TOS] introduction - Sri Ramkrishna

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hi Folks!

Wanted to introduce myself to the mailing list and say hello.

I am a engagement team member for the GNOME desktop project.  I usually
work on outreach to prospect users, developers and companies.  We are of
course, very interested in getting students involved.  Most of you might
know that the OPW project (Outreach Program for Women) now known as
Outreachy was started by the GNOME Project several years back.  We have
through that program successfully reached out to many female, and those who
identify as female to work on various parts of GNOME.

We are interested in university outreach as a goal.  I currently have two
talks scheduled at Purdue University my alma mater to talk with the
freshman at the School of Science about Open Source as part of their
'Outside the Classroom' Program.  We have another member who is also
planning on doing university talks.

In my professional life, I work as an open source advocate for Intel
Corporation.  My work centers on educating business units on implementing
the open source model successfully - by not only writing good code, but to
learn to work with the open source community as well to adhering to the GPL
as an open source denizen amongst other things.

Part of that works involves creating a pool of next generation programmers
who understand the open source model.  So I'm working many sides of this
issue. :-)  As we move forward the future is going to demand more
familiarity with the open source community model.  By creating
opportunities for students to work on an open source project we help not
only companies who are working on open source projects, but FOSS projects
as well.

I will close that we are working on re-vamping GNOME's entire outreach
around volunteer capture, and looking at new approaches for students to be
involved.  The challenges are interesting, mature code bases like GNOME
require and demand that a person understands the rudiments of working in a
team environment as well as basic software engineering.  The early days of
GNOME had volunteers as young as 9 years old - who were able to grab the
code and commit whatever they wanted.  Now more discipline and commitment
is required in order for your changes to be merged.

My life involves evolving two different environments that in the end should
work  like a producer/consumer model. :-)

So, hello!  I'm looking forward to participate with everyone on university
outreach.  Thanks!

sri
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