On Mon, Nov 12, 2012, at 08:35 AM, Rajesh Battala wrote: > In the next meetup we can think of involving more students by conducting > a workshop in a college venue. > We can encourage final year students to take up CS projects and we can > help them.
I think this is a great idea, but it's a lot of mentoring time. A LOT. Assume that any task you're mentoring is going to take twice as long as doing it yourself. Not discouraging - just want to make sure we are speaking realistically. > -----Original Message----- > From: Radhika Puthiyetath [mailto:radhika.puthiyet...@citrix.com] > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 8:03 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Student Community ? > > Hello Community leaders, > > I have not seen much discussion around developing a student community for > Apache CloudStack. I could also be wrong. > > Where are we standing in terms of student contributions? > > If we have not yet think about it, let's put some effort towards > encouraging student participation in the community activities. > > Could we start with inviting students to code CloudStack- an Apache > CloudStack Summer of Code ? > > Probably, let's plan having our Apache CloudStack Meetups in colleges and > education institutions, that way we can help them build interest in > CloudStack. > > Looking forward to your suggestions > -Radhika > > > -- Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
