I've been talking with a Prof. at a local university who heads up their Field Experience (FE) program and was mentioning that some of the projects I work on (most notably Open Relevance Project, Lucene, Mahout, OpenNLP) would fit really nicely with what his students are learning as part of their degree program. The FE is a 3 credit course that requires 135 hours of work for the semester with a "site" (i.e. company, non-profit, etc.) In many ways, it is akin to the GSOC in that it requires a mentor that the student works with. I'd like to throw my hat in as a FE opportunity, but it requires an official entity to be the "site". Thus, the email here. I'd like the ASF to be the entity. I don't think it requires anything of the ASF other than for recording purposes the University needs to know who the site is. I would be the assigned Mentor.
What do others here think about pursuing this? Do I need Board approval? I think as an Officer of the ASF I can do some of this, but want to make sure I'm proceeding correctly. Cheers, Grant
