Stormy, This is a great idea, and it is very much needed.
We are currently running our "Open Source Software Practices" course http://public.kitware.com/OpenSourceSoftwarePractice/index.php/Main_Page at RPI (http://www.rpi.edu) and will appreciate to have a visiting speaker from the GNOME project. Should we simply ask our name/course to the page: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/Speakers (?) ---- Here are several typical needs that an "Open Source Course" have from "Open Source Projects": a) Case studies: for example, we cover a couple of sessions on "Governance and community management". We talk about the projects that we manage (www.itk.org, www.vtk.org, www.paraview.org), but it is very useful to have other cases. We have used tele-participation in the past (if that helps) via Skype. b) Class projects: students must work on a FOSS as part of their grade. They tend to have difficulties identifying a community that they can join, and managing to find something interesting that can be executed in about 12 weeks (with about 2~4 hours of work a week). Do you have a list of "low hanging fruit" in your bug tracker and or feature request list, that students could work on as part of their class project. c) Talks to the larger community: (not just the class). This works better with a FOSS project representative visiting the school for on day. It will be great is someone from GNOME was available in the period from now to Dec 10. We will be happy to provide more details if you are interested. Thanks Luis ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2009/10/31 Stormy Peters <[email protected]>: > Did you talk about how to get more developers to visit schools? > > We've talked about this at GNOME. We'd like to have a list of potential > speakers (listed by topic and location) and a list of schools that would > like speakers. > > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/Speakers > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeUni > > Is there a way we could work with this group to understand the need better > and make this happen? > > Stormy > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Mel Chua <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Where by "notes" I actually mean "pictures of whiteboards" - it's a >> pretty good description of what we talked about, though. >> >> http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/TOSS09#FSOSS_whiteboards >> _______________________________________________ >> tos mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
