On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:43 AM Shobha Tyagi <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 03:57 Shobha Tyagi <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > hi sir,
> >
> > This is something really great. how can we make use of it?
> >
> > shobha
> >
> > Hi Shobha!
> >
> > Are you referring to the red hat initiative or the list of helpful
> > technology's?
> both but I meant we must also have some stuff in GNOME as well.
> so that young faculty members can learn about GNOME projects around the
> globe.
> some faculty members are so impressive that they make their students to
> follow.
> I hope everybody wants get upgraded and are very much interested in
> learning and contributing to open source projects.
> Due to lack of guidance they quit.
> Shobha
>

Right, so at the moment, it's kind of hard to follow because we don't have
good tooling.  Christian has talked about this before when he started GNOME
University.  It's absolutely true that people are hungry.  But following
GNOME is kind of hard at the moment.  For students, GNOME is hard because
you have to learn software engineering practices that in an environment
where most students tend to work by themselves instead of teams.

So GNOME has to retool a little bit in order to able to scale to more
volunteers.  That's why you see me throwing suggestions.  I think the best
methodology is to actually get involved in QA because it doesn't require
technical expertise, and gives you a chance to get to know the project.  It
is a great gateway team.

As for creating a curriculum, we should try to partner with the Red Hat
program and Openhatch (https://openhatch.org/).  If you look at their front
page, you'll see stuff like 'Find a project'.  We can advertise projects
there as well as on our website that maps to a classroom of sorts.  For
students and faculty things observing how we release complicated software
would be quite educational.  GNOME has a lot to offer students and students
in this regard.

I plan on meeting with the Dean of Science and Head of the Computer Science
dept at Purdue on some of these issues.  The thing is, if we do not have
the project on a setting that can take volunteers and process them, the
effort will be stillborn as people will get frustrated.

sri

>
> > Sri
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> FYI - on university outreach.
> >>
> >> I need to put up some notes regarding GNOME love when I discussed with
> >> Carlos.
> >>
> >> Also, the outcome of the extension BOF.  I managed to become a project
> >> manager on that.
> >>
> >> Sri
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> >> From: Gina Likins <[email protected]>
> >> Date: Thu, Aug 13, 2015, 2:08 PM
> >> Subject: Teaching Open Source Follow-Up
> >> To: Gina Norman Likins <[email protected]>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> You're receiving this email because we connected at either OSCON or the
> >> Community Leadership Summit, and you expressed interest in learning
> about
> >> how FOSS communities can engage with university instructors.  Or it
> could
> >> be
> >> that your card shuffled itself into the wrong stack and this doesn't
> >> interest you at all.  But it should! :-) <cough>
> >>
> >> I'd like to share a few links as a next step towards connecting us all:
> >>
> >> 1) http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos - if you
> >> haven't
> >> joined the mailing list yet, go ahead and do so.  It's pretty quiet, but
> >> we'd like to start having these discussions there.
> >> 2) If you'd like to find out more about those instructional materials
> that
> >> I
> >> mentioned -- the "Learning Activities" that we hope will make it easier
> >> for
> >> instructors to teach open source, they're here:
> >> http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Learning_Activities
> >> 3) Professors' Open Source Software Experience (or POSSE) is the
> intensive
> >> workshop, sponsored by the NSF and Red Hat, for instructors who want to
> >> teach open source.  Learn more about POSSE here:
> >> http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE
> >>
> >> If you'd like to send a short introduction to the teachingopensource
> list,
> >> that would also be great (don't worry, they're quite friendly).
> >>
> >> Thanks again for the interest - look for next communications to come via
> >> the
> >> list!
> >>
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Gina
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----
> >> Gina Likins
> >> University Outreach
> >> Open Source and Standards
> >> 11S133, Red Hat Tower
> >> 100 E. Davie St.; Raleigh, NC 27601
> >> [email protected]
> >> (919)890-8322 or internally 48322
> >>
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