That might work.
However, I suspect that the curricula that train technical writers and
editors back where, among others, I earlier last year attempted to
utilize some students for OOoAuthors at my alma mater--the Engineering
College at the University of Wisconsin-Madison--actually receive
real-world writing/editing projects to work on and can do them on a
cooperative basis with real major-league firms, especially those in
Wisconsin that plan to hire them eventually. They probably even get paid
as undergrad, continuing (professional development), or grad students,
but I didn't pursue that aspect further. I suspect that many (if not
all) can get paid. No big deal there. Many of them are grad students,
and most of them are compensated otherwise--as RAs or TAs. Back in
college, I was a paid undergrad TA at UW way back when.
Therefore, only those students unfortunate enough not to have any real
projects might be interested in doing pro bono work instead of getting
their feet in the door industry-wise before graduating.
Gary Schnabl
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
This may be of interest to our project. Ideas?
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: dev@openoffice.org
To: dev@openoffice.org
Cc: dev@native-lang.openoffice.org
Subject: [native-lang] Students!
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:21:58 -0500
Dear all but especially students (and recent students),
Kay Ramme has been leading an update of our to-dos and the results
are so far great. See
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/To-Dos .
One of the drivers for this is that we are starting to work more with
colleges and universities throughout the world. So far, we have
initiated contacts in Oregon (OSU), Toronto, Canada (Seneca College),
and possibly Hyderabad, India. Everything is still in the early
stages and professors and students want to look at the to-dos that we
have. They would love it if these to-dos were in manageable chunks,
ideally of 3-4 month duration, though they can be longer and just
shared sequentially among students.
It occurred to me that the students working on OOo might be willing
to help out in a couple of ways. One is to look over the to-dos and
see if you can evaluate them and suggest ways to make them more
manageable. Another is to help out future students and help them
understand how to negotiate OpenOffice.org.
Thanks,
Louis
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