Hi, I recently graduated in MIS and willing to learn and contribute to the community as a Software Engineer. From where can I start? What are the projects or opportunuies available for me?
More friendly faces and some guidance needed. :) On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@apache.org> wrote: > On 14/12/2010 12:11, florent andré wrote: > >> Hi Ross, >> >> I'm interested in for the Lenya project. >> >> But I'm just a commiter and I ask myself if I can be a mentor for such a >> program ? >> >> For sure, I could be a "friendly face" ! :) >> > > "just a committer"? That means you know how the project works and have > commit access to the repo, so yes, you are certainly able to be a mentor. > Being a "friendly face" is a significant bonus. > > Ross > > > >> cced d...@lenya >> ++ >> >> On 12/14/2010 10:25 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: >> >>> 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/ >>> >> >
