BTW the dates for the SS12 events are CSUN -- Feb 5-6 USC -- Feb 19-20 UCLA -- Feb 26-27
Steve On 20 December 2010 17:09, Steve Lee <st...@fullmeasure.co.uk> wrote: > HI > > Project:Possibility are starting to organise next year's SS12 CS > student competitions and are looking for ideas again. This year we're > really pleased to announce that CSUN are joining USC and UCLA, meaning > we will have 3 events. We also hope to have the finals and > presentations at CSUN conference like last year. That means lots of > opportunities to introduce students to GNOME a11y and get them working > on projects. > > Last year Ben Konrath did a great job leading 2 teams to work on > Caribou. Thus these students got an first class introduction to and > experience in open source development that is otherwise unusual, > except for self motivated individuals. We were very pleased to hear > from the students last year that contributing to a 'real' open source > project like GNOME was a big motivator. > > If you have any ideas for projects please do add them to (or otherwise update) > > http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GetInvolved/SmallTasks > > The students get to pick ideas from a short list, so if you are lucky > yours will be worked on. The ideas need to be small enough and self > contained such they can be worked on over a weekend and have a chance > of doing well in the judging. Students won't have much time to get up > to speed with existing code bases. > > Thanks > > -- > Steve Lee > > Full Measure - open source accessibility - http://fullmeasure.co.uk > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
