I am now working for Sourcesense UK, who have made contact with a prominent London based university. The university has a group of five or six third year computer science students (on a four year joint honours/masters course), and their tutor is looking for a project for them for the October-March timeframe.
He wants it to be open source, and he wants it to be engaging with an existing community, rather than producing something self-contained. We have ideas about which communities to approach. As a part of my role at Sourcesense, I will be available to assist with this project - talking to the students directly, guiding them with how to engage well with the community, etc. However, as I am not a member of or committer on any of the projects that we are likely to approach, I will not be able to be a formal Mentor. Before sending my (already written) introductory mail to our chosen project(s), I wanted to see whether there was anything I should bear in mind when doing so. I did want to mention that your page [1] on mentoring in formal education was a very useful read. Do you, as yet, have any students following this process, or could this be the first? Regards, Upayavira [1] http://community.apache.org/mentorprogrammeformaleducation.html
