Is that URL correctly spelled? (trasnfer?) Mahout has a strong record of welcoming mentorees. Keep us in mind as you go forward.
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@apache.org> wrote: > I've been quite busy recently and as a result my activities here have taken > a back sear. However, now that our conference [1] is out of the way I now > have some time for ComDev again. > > The mentor programme is my primary interest for now (not that I think it is > more important than the local speakers/mentors app, its just my personal > focus). Starting in September I will have anything from 20-200 final year > students from across the EU looking for mentors here at the ASF. > > These students will be part of a second pilot for an EU funded project. We > have a number of lecturers and teaching assistants to look after them but we > need practical projects and mentors. I'll be working with other foundations > as well to ensure we have a good range of projects available. > > The EU project in question will be running two other pilots, so we've got > loads of chances to get this ironed out. > > In a few moments I will create an issue to track this activity. Naturally I > welcome any assistance on getting this going on the ASF side. > > Ross > > > [1] http://trasnfersummit.com (thanks to Noirin and Bertrand for their > representation there) >