add an academic bof page

Signed-off-by: Toshaan Bharvani <toshaan@vantosh.com>

content/groups/academic.md

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+---
+title: Academic BoF
+wgtype: bof
+image: thumb-6.jpg
+chair:
+  - ganesannarayanasamy
+members:
+  - ibm
+  - universityoforegon
+  - newhorizoncollege-marathallicampus
+participation: 'Public'
+discussion: https://discuss.openpower.foundation/c/bof/academic/26
+meetingminutes: https://meetingminutes.openpower.foundation/academic/
+calendar:
+  web: https://discuss.openpower.foundation/c/bof/academic/26/l/calendar
+  ics: webcal://discuss.openpower.foundation/c/bof/academic/l/calendar.ics
+chat:
+  mattermost: https://chat.openpower.foundation/opf/channels/academic
+  slack: https://app.slack.com/client/T443QD9JA/C0317NSP0JG
+  irc: '#openpower-academic on irc.libera.chat'
+#files: https://files.openpower.foundation/s/iZRseq3XLtRcjtX
+#kanban: https://kanban.openpower.foundation/b/hgDqwnbiZDHFR3B3b/librebmc
+date: 2022-02-04
+draft: false
+---
+
+Academic Bird-of-a-Feathers Discussion Working Group comprises a broad range of academic institutions with strong competence in providing and
+operating OpenPOWER Cores to HPC / AI / Cloud applications along with Computing facilities.  
+
+This group has been developing research partnership across universities in support of OpenPOWER SoC curriculum,
+AI/HPC based Curriculum, Technology Workshops and Several solution developmens. Universities are encouraged
+to sign up for OpenPower Foundation Academic membership free of charge.
+We have  nearly 200+ universities and academics across the world to participate in our academic group engage
+in opportunities for project collaboration, curriculum development, infrastructure skills, research and development activities.