On Sep 6, 4:00 pm, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Chris De Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > My name is Chris De Vries and I am involved with the IEEE student > > branch at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, > > Australia [1]. I am organizing a program that encourages students to > > become involved with open source. I am looking for projects that are > > interested in taking on students. The branch will be running an > > information session and I am hoping to list some projects that are > > willing to mentor students. Is Django interested? > > This depends a little bit on what you mean by 'taking on students'. > > Are we interested in students working on code, submitting patches, and > getting involved in the community? Sure, in the same way we invite > anyone else in the world to do the same.
This is what I want to encourage students to do. If both the projects and students are aware of their willingness then this will be more likely to happen. > > Are we interested in adopting and mentoring a group of students who > are working on a new feature? Possibly, depending on the students > involved and what you want us to do beyond what we would ordinarily be > doing in our capacity as Django maintainers. My idea is that mentors will be a first point of contact for a participating student. They can help introduce them to the community and answer any initial questions. I expect that their involvement will fade over time as the student becomes part of the development community. I imagine this will work best if the student is assigned a mentor and an initial project at the same time. How does this contrast with the GSoC experience? > > I am based in Perth, but I am in Brisbane fairly regularly for work > purposes; if you're interested in getting together (either in person > or by phone/Skype) to discuss your plans in more detail, or if you > just want a warm body to sit on a panel at an information session, > mail me off list and we can tee something up. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
