On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:43:30PM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:21:25PM -0400, Ralph Morelli wrote: > > > I think it would be great if there were resources ($$) to support more > > summer efforts. > > GSoC is great, but, as far as I understand it, faculty aren't involved in > > that so you don't really have the mediating necessary if we're going to > > bridge the gap > > between the FOSS development communities and our faculty colleagues and our > > classrooms. Short of that, the best we can do is to follow Matt's example > > and look carefully and critically at our various pedagogical experiments > > until we > > come up with some techniques and approaches that work. > > I've seen faculty as mentors through GSoC, but they do it from being > in the upstream FOSS project; Bart Massey and Joel Sherril come to > mind.
hi! me too! (I also take out the trash, sweep the floors, and do any other odd job that comes around; I'm ubiquitous that way.) > How could summer coding be done better for faculty? There's lots of grant money out there (NSF REU etc.) but "coding" != "research" necessarily -- grant money is usually for research experiences, not explicitly for working on software... The Python Software Foundation is planning to run a high school program in the near future, too, based on GHOP (Google Highly Open Participation). We've been thinking about how to do our own GSoC-style thing but GSoC is already so much work that we're happy doing that for now. cheers, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [email protected] _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
