Author: robweir
Date: Mon Feb 11 00:24:44 2013
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+Title: Advice for Students
+Notice: Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ distributed with this work for additional information
+ regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ .
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ .
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
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+ KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ under the License.
+
+As a well-known open source project, we get many requests each semester from
students interested in volunteering with us. Often it is a
+requirement for a course that they contribute to an open source project or
demonstrate some specific skill or knowledge in a real-world
+context. The following points will help make the experience volunteering with
the OpenOffice project a good one for all:
+
+ - Let us know what you are trying to accomplish. Do you need to volunteer a
specific number of hours? Weeks? Enough to write up a report?
+ When do you need to have this done? Next week? Or three months from now?
The more you let us know what your goal is the better we can
+ recommend appropriate tasks for you to work on.
+
+ - Similarly, let us know what skills you have. C++? Technical writing?
Translation? Communications? Graphic design?
+
+ - For example, an ideal query might be, "I am a 3rd year computer science
student. I have 1 year exerience with C++. I need to contribute to an
+ open source project for the duration of this semester (ending in May). I
was hoping I could help with QA, maybe 2 hours a week for this time."
+
+ - Be patient and don't be deterred if your initial notes are not responded
to immediately. We're a community of volunteers, spread through
+ many time zones. Many of us have "day jobs" or otherwise work on OpenOffice
only part time.
+
+ - In general, it takes longer to become productive with the programming side
of OpenOffice than with the QA, translation or marketing areas.
+ Keep this in mind if you will be volunteering only for a short period of
time (less than a month or two).
+
+ - We cannot offer any formal grade or evaluation of a student's
contributions, but your contributions will be public, on our mailing lists
+ and other tools, so your professor can easily verify your work.
+
+ - If your class will be having multiple students wanting to volunteer at the
same time, please have your professor contact us in advance,
+ so we can understand the course requirements and have time to prepare of
some appropriate tasks.
+
+
+
+
