I worked for a few years at an organization at my university, the OSU Open Source Lab http://osuosl.org/ which was founded as an effort to help give back to the open source community. The OSL now hosts a wide range of projects. Working there as a student required maintaining a large range of services for people all over the world and taught me more than I ever learned in class.
If your department is starting to have some free cycles and spare hardware and spare bandwidth perhaps you can offer your resources to help support some of the projects that you have depended on over the years. Feel free to contact the guys at the OSL, perhaps they could help you get started. I know the OSL's mirrors http://ftp.osuosl.org/ could use some more bandwidth, perhaps you could partner with them to provide another mirror node.
Cheers,
I don't know where you got this idea from. I think the problem is that people who haven't heard much about the OSL just can't quite figgure what the OSL is here to do. There are two main goals, contract work for developing open source software (OSU's Maintain for exampe) and hosting for large projects (Gentoo Linux for example). If you are looking for a group to teach people about Linux, check out the OSLUG http://lug.oregonstate.edu/ if you have not already which is a student driven organization and is very open to the public.
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I worked for a few years at an organization at my university, the OSU Open Source Lab http://osuosl.org/ which was founded as an effort to help give back to the open source community. The OSL now hosts a wide range of projects. Working there as a student required maintaining a large range of services for people all over the world and taught me more than I ever learned in class. If your department is starting to have some free cycles and spare hardware and spare bandwidth perhaps you can offer your resources to help support some of the projects that you have depended on over the years. Feel free to contact the guys at the OSL, perhaps they could help you get started. I know the OSL's mirrors http://ftp.osuosl.org/ could use some more bandwidth, perhaps you could partner with them to provide another mirror node. Cheers,
I don't know where you got this idea from. I think the problem is that people who haven't heard much about the OSL just can't quite figgure what the OSL is here to do. There are two main goals, contract work for developing open source software (OSU's Maintain for exampe) and hosting for large projects (Gentoo Linux for example). If you are looking for a group to teach people about Linux, check out the OSLUG http://lug.oregonstate.edu/ if you have not already which is a student driven organization and is very open to the public.