Hi Ross, what a nice effort! Regards, Tommaso 2010/12/14 Ross Gardler <rgard...@apache.org>
> Below is the text of a mail I sent to the PMCs last night. Copied here for > information: > > Over the next few weeks your project may be approached by students > participating in a European Commission funded project called OpenSE [1]. > These students will be looking for GSoC style mentors in open source > projects. > > The headline info you need is: > > * Mentors will not need to commit as much time as they do to GSoC > > * The student/mentor relationship should be largely the same as any other > relationship with someone new to your project > > * Students will, in general, work on existing issues in your project, but > some may come with their own ideas > > * All work by the student should be managed and recorded using your > projects normal workflow > > * Students will not be full time on the project > > * Students will not be paid > > * Students will have external support from teachers and teaching assistants > > The key message for your project community is that this activity should > present minimal additional overhead to your normal community support > activities. > > Having said that, there are a few additional, but small, tasks we ask you > to perform during the course of a mentored project: > > * acknowledge your agreement to mentor a student > > * provide a brief evaluation of the students activities half way through > the project cycle (around 6 weeks in most cases) > > * provide a brief evaluation of the students activities at the end of the > project cycle (around 12 weeks in most cases) > > Each of these activities is recorded in a JIRA issue in the ComDev project. > This issue will be created by the student during the application process. > > It is important to stress that we are not asking mentors to take any > responsibility for the success of the students work. All we ask is that you > act as a "friendly face" within your community and provide brief evaluations > as described above. > > Unlike in GSoC these students will (in most cases) be doing this work as > part of their formal education. All students will have external tutors and > teaching assistants helping them. Therefore, you should only need to help > them with their direct contributions to your project (design, code review, > applying patches etc.) > > Unlike in GSoC students will not be working full time on their projects and > thus the overhead on mentors will be considerably less. > > The Community Development project is encouraging and supporting this > activity in an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach to > helping students understand open source development whilst bringing some > valued patches to our projects. > > You can find some more information about the mentoring programme (which > will evolve in response to experiences and feedback in this experiment) at > http://community.apache.org/mentoringprogramme.html > > If you have any questions please mail dev@community.apache.org (or if you > explicitly want to seek out students for your project). > > If you agree to mentor a student all we ask is that you also subscribe to > the dev@community.apache.org list (it's low traffic) and touch base with > us now and again to let us know how things are going. > > Ross > On behalf of the Community Development Project > > [1] http://opense.net/ >
