On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Olly Betts <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:19:06PM -0500, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: >> 4. FOSS Mentor Projects. There are actually a number of projects listed >> here, and the team had regular meetings for a while. These have since >> fallen by the wayside, it seems, but this looks like a potentially useful >> resource, and I'd like to see if we can pick this project back up, dust >> this page off, and start driving interested folks aggressively to it. We >> continue to hear that this is one of the most valuable resources we can >> provide, so long as we do a good job at maintaining it. (Grade: C+) > > Leslie Hawthorn was driving this effort, but didn't have the time to devote > to it. So far nobody has stepped up to take over. I'd like to see it > prosper, but I'm already overstretched at present, and don't want to > volunteer knowing I'd be likely to do a poor job. > > Perhaps for now we should just try to ensure that listings here are kept > current so what we've managed to build so far remains useful, and publicise > the existence of this list to educators, students, and other projects.
Speaking from the FOSS project side, RTEMS was one of the first few projects on the list and AFAIK no one has ever contacted us using this. So publicizing this and making sure we FOSS projects are providing the right information for educators would be good. I am happy to do whatever is desired but no one has asked. I am starting to feel like the ugly kid standing next to the wall at the school dance. And that isn't a pleasant memory. LOL > Incidentally, with the guidance of Adam from flossmanuals, we (that is, > Leslie, myself, and 5 other GSoC mentors) had a 2 day book sprint and put > together a mentoring guide. It's currently written for GSoC, but a lot of > it is more widely relevant, and the intention was that a lot of the content > could be reused to produce a more generic guide to mentoring for projects > wanting to get involved but feeling they need guidance: > > http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoringGuide And it looked very nice printed and bound. You guys did a great job. :) > Cheers, > Olly --joel sherrill RTEMS > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
