On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:43 AM Shobha Tyagi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 03:57 Shobha Tyagi <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > hi sir, >> > >> > This is something really great. how can we make use of it? >> > >> > shobha >> > >> > Hi Shobha! >> > >> > Are you referring to the red hat initiative or the list of helpful >> > technology's? >> both but I meant we must also have some stuff in GNOME as well. >> so that young faculty members can learn about GNOME projects around the >> globe. >> some faculty members are so impressive that they make their students to >> follow. >> I hope everybody wants get upgraded and are very much interested in >> learning and contributing to open source projects. >> Due to lack of guidance they quit. >> Shobha > > > Right, so at the moment, it's kind of hard to follow because we don't have > good tooling. Christian has talked about this before when he started GNOME > University. It's absolutely true that people are hungry. But following > GNOME is kind of hard at the moment. For students, GNOME is hard because > you have to learn software engineering practices that in an environment > where most students tend to work by themselves instead of teams. very true..
> So GNOME has to retool a little bit in order to able to scale to more > volunteers. That's why you see me throwing suggestions. I think the best > methodology is to actually get involved in QA because it doesn't require > technical expertise, and gives you a chance to get to know the project. It > is a great gateway team. > > As for creating a curriculum, we should try to partner with the Red Hat > program and Openhatch (https://openhatch.org/). If you look at their front > page, you'll see stuff like 'Find a project'. We can advertise projects > there as well as on our website that maps to a classroom of sorts. For > students and faculty things observing how we release complicated software > would be quite educational. GNOME has a lot to offer students and students > in this regard. > as I have enrolled in PhD this year can I be of any help in creating something useful for newcomers learning; how GNOME follow software engineering practices? thanks Shobha > I plan on meeting with the Dean of Science and Head of the Computer Science > dept at Purdue on some of these issues. The thing is, if we do not have the > project on a setting that can take volunteers and process them, the effort > will be stillborn as people will get frustrated. > > sri >> >> >> > Sri >> > >> > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> FYI - on university outreach. >> >> >> >> I need to put up some notes regarding GNOME love when I discussed with >> >> Carlos. >> >> >> >> Also, the outcome of the extension BOF. I managed to become a project >> >> manager on that. >> >> >> >> Sri >> >> >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> >> From: Gina Likins <[email protected]> >> >> Date: Thu, Aug 13, 2015, 2:08 PM >> >> Subject: Teaching Open Source Follow-Up >> >> To: Gina Norman Likins <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hello! >> >> >> >> You're receiving this email because we connected at either OSCON or the >> >> Community Leadership Summit, and you expressed interest in learning >> >> about >> >> how FOSS communities can engage with university instructors. Or it >> >> could >> >> be >> >> that your card shuffled itself into the wrong stack and this doesn't >> >> interest you at all. But it should! :-) <cough> >> >> >> >> I'd like to share a few links as a next step towards connecting us all: >> >> >> >> 1) http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos - if you >> >> haven't >> >> joined the mailing list yet, go ahead and do so. It's pretty quiet, >> >> but >> >> we'd like to start having these discussions there. >> >> 2) If you'd like to find out more about those instructional materials >> >> that >> >> I >> >> mentioned -- the "Learning Activities" that we hope will make it easier >> >> for >> >> instructors to teach open source, they're here: >> >> http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Learning_Activities >> >> 3) Professors' Open Source Software Experience (or POSSE) is the >> >> intensive >> >> workshop, sponsored by the NSF and Red Hat, for instructors who want to >> >> teach open source. Learn more about POSSE here: >> >> http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE >> >> >> >> If you'd like to send a short introduction to the teachingopensource >> >> list, >> >> that would also be great (don't worry, they're quite friendly). >> >> >> >> Thanks again for the interest - look for next communications to come >> >> via >> >> the >> >> list! >> >> >> >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> >> >> Gina >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- >> >> Gina Likins >> >> University Outreach >> >> Open Source and Standards >> >> 11S133, Red Hat Tower >> >> 100 E. Davie St.; Raleigh, NC 27601 >> >> [email protected] >> >> (919)890-8322 or internally 48322 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> engagement-list mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
