On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 10:51 PM Ajay Tripathi <[email protected]> wrote:

> - teach the best practices of web development applied to networking (a
>> rare skill) to a young audience
>>
>
>> comments:
>> finding developers who are skilled at python, django, javascript, openwrt
>> and networking tools it's very rare.
>> We must aim at alleviating this problem by distributing as much knowledge
>> as we can.
>> We have to try to dedicate some tasks to OpenWRT and networking tools
>> (freeradius, coova-chilli and anything useful).
>>
>
> As a young contributor myself aiming to learn Web Development, Networking
> & DevOps, i feel a page on the website containing blogs from working
> professionals, guide of what all tools are a must-know and recommended way
> for getting used to them / learning them & any other advice from
> professionals working in the industry would be very helpful.
>

Good idea, a collection of links and resources to improve one's skills.

we should aim at encouraging students to keep participating also when the
>> program ends, because while helping us to improve, they also learn a lot
>> and grow their soft and hard skills.
>>
>
> Agreed, a way to implement it could be a blog page on the website with a
> section "What i learned while contributing to OpenWISP" should inspire
> newcomers.
>

Yes, we had something like this last year at the end of the program.


>
>>    - *community*: open source is not only about producing code, being
>>    active in the community (mailing list and chat), helping out fellow
>>    students and helping out new users who ask beginner questions is also very
>>    important to maintain a healthy community
>>
>> +1, Is adding a task "Help a comrade" a good idea? It'll be very
> subjective if we score on this criteria but surely it will encourage
> students help each other!
>
>
We have one task like this so we're good :-)

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