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Students in our region have been users of open source tools and technology but there are negligible people who contribute back to the growth, infact many doesnt even know that they could contribute back. The culture of contribution should be inculcated among the student community. This talk presents the efforts to building communities to foster the culture of open source and contributions by the students. <br><br>This talk presents the Open source advocacy path by introducing to the philosophy of open source, introduction to Open Source tools and mentorship to enable students to contribute. This talk will also present different ways open source can be introduced into mainstream curriculum where academician community introduced open source in day to day classwork. The community effort to push the adoption of tools, contribution path and transfer of knowledge within the campuses and cross campus exchange programs. Will present a case-study of few communities where the impact was created through this efforts among which even i was part of. I will also discusses the role of Non-Profits, Communities and Academic institutions collaborating can help to pave this path.<br><br>This talk will present case studies which communities, organizations can adopt in building an open source eco system. This also gives insights on how the education system can be transformed to build open source contributors.
