I might be interested in volunteering (though, I won't be in Austin).
-- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > I know we have a bunch of people who already volunteer to teach in > schools. I know that this has a great deal of impact at many levels. I'm > looking for volunteers to help with a potential new initiative. > > In the run-up to ApacheCon Sally will be running a campaign around the > 15th Anniversary of the foundation. It will look at the legacy of the ASF > and to the future. It will focus on the ASF as being a place of innovation > and excitement. > > I've recently had confirmation that a representative of TEALS, an > organization that trains volunteers to teach in high schools in 20 states. > These students take a rigorous college level CS class (UC Berkeley CS10 or > UW CSE142/143 AP) in schools that might otherwise have no IT component at > all. > > 40% of the schools are Title 1 schools (as a Brit I had to look this up, > in short it's about improving academic achievements of the disadvantaged > [1]) and a dozen or so are in very rural areas. Furthermore, 25% of their > students are girls and 25% are from minority groups (in other words this > has an impact on diversity). > > My ask of the ComDev PMC is for us to run a BOF at ApacheCon to figure out > how we might enable ASF community members to assist with the work that > TEALS (and similar) organizations do. I'm happy to help drive this, but > ideally there will be a couple of volunteers here who are interested enough > to take ownership. > > I'm working with Sally to find other valuable folks to participate and > hope to have more than just TEALS represented. What I would like to do, in > a perfect world, is announce a partnership at ApacheCon. Failing that I > would like to develop the outline of a partnership at ApacheCon itself. > > So, please step forward if you are interested in volunteering (there's no > need for you to be present in Austin, though that would be great). > > Ross > > > [1] http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg1.html > > Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. > A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation > >
