Re: [TOS] Some Thoughts about a "How to Get Started Contributing to (and Using) FOSS" essay

2010-04-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from satyaakam goswami's message of Sat Apr 03 20:51:02 + 2010: > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > For the past few days I've been intending to write a document about "How to > > Get Started Contributing to (and to a lesser extent, Using) Open

Re: [TOS] Searching for students for GSoC

2010-04-03 Thread Luis Ibanez
2010/4/3 Karsten Wade : > On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 05:16:52PM -0400, Luis Ibanez wrote: > >> In the great scheme of things, this actually touches on one >> of the topics that we discussed at TOS 2009, the need for >> a public forum that will match willing students with  FOSS >> projects. > > This is

Re: [TOS] Searching for students for GSoC

2010-04-03 Thread Luis Ibanez
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Matthew Jadud wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 17:16, Luis Ibanez wrote: >> Would it be appropriate to post their announcement in this >> list ? (with the requests that the faculty in the list forward it >> to their local students ?). > > Hi Luis, > > I assume they

Re: [TOS] Searching for students for GSoC

2010-04-03 Thread Karsten Wade
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 05:16:52PM -0400, Luis Ibanez wrote: > In the great scheme of things, this actually touches on one > of the topics that we discussed at TOS 2009, the need for > a public forum that will match willing students with FOSS > projects. This is quite a common need, a lack of wh

Re: [TOS] Searching for students for GSoC

2010-04-03 Thread Matthew Jadud
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 17:16, Luis Ibanez wrote: > Would it be appropriate to post their announcement in this > list ? (with the requests that the faculty in the list forward it > to their local students ?). Hi Luis, I assume they have a blog for their project. Why not post their project's homep

[TOS] Searching for students for GSoC

2010-04-03 Thread Luis Ibanez
Two of the students students who attended our 2009 class on Open Source Practices are now managing a budding open source project of their own and got accepted as a project (as mentors) for the GSoC. They are now actively looking to advertise the opportunity for other students to join them working

Re: [TOS] Some Thoughts about a "How to Get Started Contributing to (and Using) FOSS" essay

2010-04-03 Thread satyaakam goswami
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all! > > For the past few days I've been intending to write a document about "How to > Get Started Contributing to (and to a lesser extent, Using) Open Source > Software". Here are some of my random thoughts about my plans for it. > > how ab

[TOS] Some Thoughts about a "How to Get Started Contributing to (and Using) FOSS" essay

2010-04-03 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! For the past few days I've been intending to write a document about "How to Get Started Contributing to (and to a lesser extent, Using) Open Source Software". Here are some of my random thoughts about my plans for it. #. ESR's "How to become a Hacker" -