On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Luis Ibanez <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > > Cool! > > Should we simply ask our name/course to the page: > > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/Speakers (?) > Yes, I also forwarded your mail to the GNOME marketing list to raise visibility as this would be our first connection through this program. > > > 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. > > We can definitely find people to participate via Skype, but hopefully we have someone in the area. I know we have a lot of presence in the Boston area. > > 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. > We have the GNOME Love program, http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove, and a really strong group of mentors. Someone could come speak to you about that. We'll make this happen! Stormy
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