On Sat, Jan 22, 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Since a WftD activity is supposed to be primarily about work > experience and not about training, you couldn't spend a lot of time > teaching the participants the skills of programming -- and considering > that I know a lot of CompSci graduates who couldn't program their way > out of a paper bag, I'm not sure that it's possible to teach a group > of likely disinterested volunteers good programming practices in 15% > of 2 days a week...
I know the parent post was specifically about programming, but Sydney LinuxChix actually also had this discussion amongst ourselves recently too, and some of the meeting participants were much more interested in doing non-coding Free Software volunteer work for their mutual obligation requirements: documentation writing and editing and bug reporting. While it still seems like the volunteer possibility is far better than WftD for this because people would choose it, there's possibly more Newstart recipients with useful skills in the non-coding activities who would benefit from the arrangement. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
