Mediaboss Marketing

Thiruvananthapuram, May 31:

International Centre for Free and Open Source Software here has launched a joint mentoring programme with the Apache Software Foundation, a leading producer of free and open source software.

The programme seeks to identify talented software developers from the State who would be mentored to participate in live projects of the foundation.

In the open source software, source code is made available and licensed in such a manner that copyright holder provides rights to study, change and distribute software free to anyone and for any purpose.

Targeted at young developers with demonstrable programming skills, including students and fresh graduates, the mentoring programme will start off with a three-day bootcamp from June 17-19.

Luciano Resende, vice-president, community development at Apache Software Foundation, will spearhead the programme.

Basic and intermediate concepts in open source software development will be introduced here.

At the end, participants will identify a project of their interest and piloted by the foundation, and produce a software project proposal which will be short-listed for mentoring by it.

During the 3-month project implementation phase, participants will interact with foundation volunteers who will help them and bring them up to speed in areas where they require support.

The foundation has been participating in several mentoring initiatives around the world, and for the first time in India, is partnering in a pilot project here, said Luciano Resende.

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Open source mentoring scheme to select talented developers