Hi Rob, Hi all, 2013/5/11 Rob Weir <[email protected]>
> I'm thinking we have three kinds of volunteers: > > [...] > > 1) Twice a year (once a semester) we get an influx of college students > who have been told by their professor to contribute to an open source > project. That is a type #3 developer. What can we line up for them > to work on in the Fall, that they can get started with quickly? If > someone has only 10 hours to offer, and we'll never here from them > again, what can they do? > Why not to try to establish a durable collaboration directly with some schools or universities. So, you can deal with a limited number of persons, the teachers, who can after organize some projects as exercices for their students. The students could directly worked under the mentoring of their teachers. The first year could be more difficult for the professors, to learn and adapt to the system but after the things could be more easy to manage and it could be also motivating for students to make real work for a real project. But OK, for me the code is a blackbox, I don't know if such an organisation is possible or a lost of time for everybody. A+ -- gw > >
