Post Event Report
The ALC Indore successfully organized the "Open Source and ASF Awareness" Session at Indore on 23 November 2019 at Daisy Dales School.
The clicks from the event are available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/alcindore/sets/72157711932233583/
We had a very fruitful and interactive session with bright and young minds, here are highlights from the event.
- 50+ Students participated in the event and attended the session.
- The duration for the session was 1 hour 30 minutes including the interaction with the audience.
- The response from students was overwhelming for us, they asked some surprisingly amazing questions to us, like
- How can we earn money by making my code open source?
- Who is the CEO of Apache?
- If I take an open source project, customize it, and sell it to my friend, can he also sell my customized project.
- How I can contribute to Apache?
- How much do you earn by taking these sessions?
- If a big organization, took my open source project and earn money from it, then will it be my loss?
- any many more...
After the session, we had a query resolution session in which the students came up with very thoughtful and interesting queries, which we didn't quite expect considering their age. But they surprised us, most of them seemed to be aware and well-informed even at this young age.
We hope this session turns out to be useful for the students and we inch closer towards realizing our dream of creating an impact.
Students spend a great time with us even after the session, individually they asked many queries and requested us to come back soon. 
In one line, these kids were awesome and we were filled with great energy after interacting with them!!
Agenda
ALC Indore is organizing 'Open Source and ASF Awareness' event for the student community at Daisy Dales School on 23 November 2019 in Indore, India.
As per our experience, we found the school students are not much aware about open-source, for most of them a free to use the software is open source.
Since, they are the future of the software industry, we thought to guide them on Open-Source and the Apache Software Foundation.
Our audience will be 11th and 12th grade students who have taken the computer as an additional subject.
In the event, we will have a session on Open-Source and The Apache Software Foundation (Duration ~1 hour)
Session on the Open-Source and The Apache Software Foundation
The session will include the following topics.
- What is Open source software?
- History of Open source and ASF
- Comparison with closed source
- Why you should know Open Source?
- Why you should contribute to Open Source?
- How can you contribute?
- Open Source License
- Examples Open source and project under ASF umbrella.
- Apache Software Foundation History & Projects
- How to pick a project based domain/programming language interest from ASF