Cool, thanks Chris. Keep an eye on this list. I'll keep you informed here (and may ping you privately if there is something specific I think you can help with).
In the meantime, do you have any experience already? Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation -----Original Message----- From: Christopher [mailto:ctubb...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 1:22 PM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: Volunteering in schools 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 > >
