While at Open Source Summit last week in Dublin I talked with someone who is teaching classes about open source. One of the aspects of these classes is pairing a student with an open source project, so that they can learn what's involved in actual hands-on participation in open source. (This is someone that I have known for years, and hugely respect, FWIW.)
He asked if there were Apache projects, and, specifically, mentors, willing to spend 5 hours a week (ish) to work with a student, directed by this professor. We talked about how important it is that we don't set a student, or a project, up for failure, by having a student work on the proverbial "pizzas nobody ordered", so that when they deliver, their contributions will be rejected or ignored. Thus the need for someone willing to help them learn how to communicate with a project, and deliver something that's actually valuable. Are any of you aware of projects where there might be these kinds of individuals, who I can introduce to my friend Stephen. (Note: This is all the information that I have, so any deeper questions about how the project is actually administered, funded, etc, etc, I will not have answers for.) --Rich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
