[Campus-uconn-staff] Inviting PNB students to a free software event on Saturday, October 18 (free event)

[Kelleher, Kathy]

Please contact Pariksheet Nanda [mailto:pariksheet.nanda at uconn.edu] with any questions.


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From: Pariksheet Nanda [mailto:pariksheet.nanda at uconn.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 6:50 AM
To: Kelleher, Kathy
Subject: Inviting PNB students to a free software event on Saturday, October 18 (free event)

Hi Kathleen,

I’m Pariksheet Nanda, a graduate Biomedical Engineering student.  On Saturday, October 18, along with OpenHatch, we’re hosting an event to introduce students to the free software community.  Free software isn’t just for computer scientists - scientists in all disciplines can benefit from using and contributing to open source projects in their fields.  I was hoping you’d help me reach out to students in Physiology and Neurobiology who might like to attend.

Could you send our announcement (below) out on your departmental mailing list, or anywhere else you think might reach interested
students?   If you also can CC: campus-uconn-staff at lists.openhatch.org
that will help us know who we’ve reached.

Thanks, and let me know if you have any questions.

Best wishes,
Pariksheet Nanda

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On Saturday, October 18, OpenHatch and the UConn ACM are hosting a day-long open source software immersion event.  We invite you to join us!  You can sign up here:

http://uconn.openhatch.org 

You don’t need to be a programmer to contribute to open source, or to attend and enjoy our event.  Most open source projects are also in need of designers, translators, documenters, bug-finders and testers.

Open source software -- software that is shared freely and available to build upon -- has become part of our daily lives.  Popular projects like WordPress, Firefox, Adium, and Ubuntu have millions of users.  In psychology, people use tools like Octave (very similar to Matlab) and PsychoPy to present stimuli to participants, and tools like Octave, the statistical programming languge R, BioSig and SPM for analyzing data.  You can learn more about these projects, and start helping out with them, at our event.

In the morning, open source contributors from various projects will teach you about open source licensing, collaboration tools, and how free software projects are organized. In the afternoon, they'll help you make hands-on contributions to open source projects. And throughout the day, they'll feed you, get to know you, and talk with you about opportunities for students in open source.

Open source participation is one way to gain real-world skills and make connections that will last you through your career. Volunteer staff will include professionals and academics who use open source daily.

The event is open to the public. Learn more, and sign up, here:

http://uconn.openhatch.org
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