Glynn Foster wrote: > I guess the first challenge is to come up with an exciting list of projects > and > awesome mentors to work with for the students. This is a great opportunity > both > to get some code written, but also to cultivate some community growth and get > more people contributing to the project. Sun has a program called 'SEED' (Sun > Engineering Enrichment & Development) and Katy has some excellent blog posts > about her involvement in the program, http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog , and > has a > pretty outstanding list of mentors attached. > > How can we encourage the best of the best in OpenSolaris to help out in the > hope > that it will attract some excellent students to submit applications for us? > > Discuss. SEED is more a mentee-driven program. Mentee will prepare his/her preferred mentor list and the objectives in the duration of this program. I'm not sure whether it's the same for OpenSolaris SOC.
Some suggestions: 1. As the best of the best are always busy :-) is it a problem for them to promise several months' time to this SOC? An alternative can be that several mentors for one/several mentees. And mentors can be backup for each other. 2. Is that possible to have some introductions for the people in OpenSolaris community available on the website? And the students who are interested are also encouraged to provide their own introductions. That may help the mentor/mentee match up. 3. The Mozilla community has one message delivery channel--text interview. The public community will prepare some questions on some projects in the community and the leaders will give the answer to those questions. If all the information can be made public, that may also help to attract some students to join. My 2 cents, -Alfred _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
