SoC is not just the only way. Google recently introduced another program aimed at younger people (e.g. high school or earlier) for mentoring on open source projects. On Feb 6, 2011 11:19 PM, "JP Loh" <j.peter...@gmail.com> wrote: > Invite mentors and students to join SoC? > > I remember reading a year or two ago about someone mentoring in Drupal > and two more other people in other projects. > > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 22:48, Miguel Paraz <mpa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> Reviving this topic - we talked about this years ago but I think it's >> worth revisiting. >> >> About the lack of open source contributions - Dean Berris puts it well: >> http://deanberris.com/on-open-source-and-the-philippines >> >> Now this hits a nerve because it's one of my personal frustrations - I >> haven't been able to contribute to open source in a long time. >> Hope we could get the younger kids to do it. >> >> I remember one conclusion from last time was that if someone had the >> talent and the time, they would better spend it on a sideline rather >> on working on an open source project. >> >> I also came across Red Hat's map of open source activity: >> http://www.redhat.com/about/where-is-open-source/activity/ >> >> I don't think this is accurate - that the Philippines is 70th out of >> 75 in community activity? >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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