On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Arjun Sarwal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > Anish and I have recently been putting in efforts to reach out to University > Students here in New Delhi in an effort to interest more and more talented > programmers to join Sugar development efforts. > We observed that there is interest and enthusiasm for students to contribute > to such projects, when they get to know about them, however there is less > awareness. After the initial outreach/presentation, we have coached them on > some of the basics eg getting Fedora up and running, installing > sugar-jhbuild (some are still facing problems), IRC, asking questions on the > mailing lists etc > The first batch of 5-7 students who've been interested regularly, will soon > be joining the list and might be asking questions, as well as looking for > projects to contribute to :) > -Arjun > > -- > Arjun Sarwal > [email protected] > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >
Maybe you can document your experiences in the wiki under a section about getting university students involved. Mel has nice experiences from the FOSSE project at RH that may complement you observations. regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
