Hi Mel, Ross, Greg & everyone On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Mel Chua <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've been working with a professor at Arizona State University on >> offering a few students independent studies next semester in which >> they would work on Android open source projects > > Sounds great! Looking forward to reading the professor's blog posts about > this on Planet TOS. ;) >
I will forward the hint :-) > > For me, what would really solidify this page is a case study, concrete > examples of how people have done in the past. That's a great idea, and thanks for adding the initial content. > > I added a "how to find out if students/professors at your institution have > done open source work before" note at > http://teachingopensource.com/index.php/FOSS_Mentor_Projects#Structured_Programs, > would love to see more resources on this topic as well! > Great! Also, thanks for all your other additions. > > Using "students can work on something open source related for credit" as the > basic idea, some brainstormed suggestions of wildly varying quality (none of > them necessarily any good): > > * OSFAC (Open Source For Academic Credit) > * OSIC (Open Source In the Curriculum) > * AMOS (Academic Mentors in Open Source) > * SPORE (Structured Programs in Open source are... Really... Exciting - > okay, I'm just stretching here) > Nice :-) I like OSIC. I think it captures the gist of it and has a nice ring to it. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > At the ASF we just created a new project for mentoring. Very early > days right now. See http://community.apache.org > Thanks, I added a few links from the Mentors page. > We've recently started an EC funded project, but no online resources > yet. Looking forward to learning more! On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Greg DeKoenigsberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is great stuff. I wonder if it's time to reconvene a meeting of the > mentors team? > I think that would be great. I added a page for the agenda: http://teachingopensource.com/index.php/Next_meeting . Since it's been a while since the last meeting, it might be good to to put together an agenda early, to help us recall where we left off and get people interested again. Or maybe that in itself is the agenda for the meeting? Best, Stjepan _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
