Yes, I’m aware that there are no more course grants, and thanks for sharing that course. It has a great course outline, and this will definitely help me in designing the course. Let me know if I can work with the author to complete this course. Also, I was planning to make an interactive course instead of video tutorials, but I just have some ideas I need to research more on. I need to see if I can practically create it the way I’m planning. I will share the whole plan once I complete my research on it.
We also have an Instagram account for mon.school. However, both of these accounts have been inactive. Therefore, I was planning to start posting content regularly from these accounts, as I discussed with @mriya11 on the call. However, if you all suggest that we should only maintain the FOSS United account, that’s not a problem. I will try to create the content, and we can share it through the FOSS United account.
GSoC, Hacktoberfest, and all the other programs are the peak times when most of the student community is searching about open source and exploring it. I agree that in recent times, we have seen people spamming some repositories just for some swag or whatever incentives that program might be offering. So the plan is to use this peak time to educate the students about open source, its benefits, explaining that open source is more than just swag, and parallelly providing them with guidance for these programs.
I might have mentioned to you that we run an initiative called theHackCalendar, where we list all the Indian in-person hackathons. Therefore, I am in touch with a few hackathon organizers whom I can try reaching out to for a partnership with mon.school
Okay, as I discussed with @mriya11, there are many community influencers who support Open Source. So we can try reaching out to them regarding the mon.school initiative. They can help us either by spreading the word about mon.school to their audience, or if they are YouTubers, we can see if they wish to shift their courses to mon.school. By shifting to mon.school, they can also add assignments and evaluation parameters to their courses. We can even provide certificates to the learners with the course creator’s signature.
Even though I’m not very sure about all this, I think if I plan a little more on it, we might be able to make it work.
So, I saw a message by @wisharya on telegram that that we are planning to open FOSS Club applications in July and we are planning to scale from 12 to 100 clubs. So we may structure it like floating an interest form first for the FOSS Club and we can ask the interested institutes to organise a session on a topic related to mon.school and make students complete the mon.school courses. In this way we can even get an idea on which campuses we can have a more active open source community.
This just one idea, we can have more ways to work on both these initiatives together since both of these programs are mostly student centric.