Scott, being both sides, in academia and in development, I find this idea surely worthwhile and I started asking around how we could account for this in our university. What kind of recognition do you expect on the university side?
Also, I would urge both sides, particularly fellow developers, to make sure tha they are properly informed of the academic-mentor's expectations. I understand from the mechanism, such a discussion would happen at time of evaluating the proposals, correct? I fear that academic development is commonly kilometers away from common sustainable development expected in open-source communities. However, they would, in this project, be closer to the learning of the students, which has been a common weak-points of GSoC. Scott, how much competition do you expect among students? thanks paul On 14 juil. 2014, at 18:36, Scott Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm working with an initiative similar to Google Summer of Code, called > Semester of Code, and I think it would be great to have students work on > XWiki. Below is more detailed information, but basically its like GSoC, > except students are involved as part of their courses or industrial > placements, so receive academic credit rather than money for their work. > > Hopefully this is of interest to the XWiki community! > > If any questions aren't answered by the FAQ[1] or invitation below, feel free > to ask. > > All the best, > > - Scott > > ~~~ > > The VALS Semester of Code [1] project is working with European universities > and FOSS communities to give students real-world experience working in open > source software projects while receiving academic credit. The benefit to your > projects will be valuable and hopefully ongoing contributions. VALS will also > benefit the wider sector by helping to produce graduates with the skills and > experience needed to engage with open development. > > Our first Semester of Code will involve approximately 75 student placements, > starting in September. We would like to invite your organisation to > participate in this pilot by offering mentored placements within your > projects. > > If you have participated in Google Summer of Code before, you will find our > process similar; we will seek placements for student projects, and will use > the a system similar to Google's Melange platform to manage placements. > However, VALS differs from Summer of Code in that instead of receiving money > for their participation, students will receive academic credit. For this > reason the mentors from your project will need to liaise with the student's > academic tutor. The VALS project will support this process to ensure it runs > as smoothly as possible. We also ensure the admin overhead is minimal. > > The VALS initiative is a partnership of European universities and SMEs who > have been working for several months to plan the pilot of Semester of Code, > which will run during the next academic year. We have now reached the stage > where we are signing up FOSS projects who are willing to provide mentors. We > have already seen interest from smaller, single-company projects to larger > software foundations, and would like to see more. > > If you'd be willing to provide one or more mentored projects, we’d love to > talk to you about joining Semester of Code. In return, you’ll get an > enthusiastic student providing a valuable contribution to your project. The > VALS team will be on hand throughout the project to answer any questions and > help unblock communication issues between mentors, students and academic > supervisors. > > To join in the Semester of Code or to simply find out more you can email > [email protected], or you can sign up to our mailing list directly by > using the web form [1]. > > More detail about the Semester of Code are available on our FAQ page [2]. If > you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to ask on the mailing list, and > one of the VALS team will get back to you! > 1: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VALS-SOC&A=1 > 2: http://semesterofcode.com/?p=22 > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
