hi,
The idea is really great.. Im a college going student just entering 3rd semester in
Computer sciences .. and am already looking for programmes and training to add to my CV
for a better job.. My college, Manipal Institute of technology, Manipal, India, has just
recently become a part of the Sun academic Initiative, which has some perks.. Such an
educational programme from Fedora would be more than a dream come true.. A lot of us go
through books and material but teaching yourself is not as efficient as a mentor telling
you what to do and helping you apply your knowledge practically.. Please give this
programme thought.. A few hours a week will be enough from the mentors and there will be
plenty of students who are interested and want to learn and contribute..
Ankur
--- On Wed, 18/6/08, Aditya Sharma <adityaksharma(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Aditya Sharma <adityaksharma(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Student partnership program. Extending fedora mentor
program to students.
To: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
Date: Wednesday, 18 June, 2008, 2:30 PM
this is a nice idea, but at the end of the day, there has to
be something
credible in the community like google summer of code or the
like to attract
participation from college students, lets not forget they
might be willing
to contribute but they wont unless it also helps them build
a credible CV,
so there has to be a community wide effort to integrate
students into the
main stream, the mentoring program is a great idea, and can
integrate
students but if we really want this to pick up we need to
have a massive
movement and competition among the students themselves to
be able to
contribute, and the winning contributions can win some sort
of certificates
or some monetary prize or the like, a competition will
bring in better
talent and consequently better contributions, this in no
way is a
replacement for the regular fix a bug and move up the
ladder routine but
this can occasionally like once a year or so could bring in
some good talent
and encourage participation.
Regards
Aditya Kumar Sharma
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:21 PM, "Sankarshan
(সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <
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> susmit shannigrahi wrote:
>
> Generally the final/pre-final year engineering
students need to do
>> some project work on a topic.
>> What I personally saw that they desperately search
for one.
>>
>> we can make a lot of new contributors if we
provide them with a
>> project to work, some guidence
>> and may be a certificate at the end. (As they say,
target this segment :))
>>
>
> Quite by chance this was the same topic that I
broached to Spot yesterday
> afternoon. And it turns out that a good place to push
these potential
> contributors would be towards doing "Fedora
QE" starting up with learning
> how to triage, process and work the bug queue and
additionally coming up
> with Test Cases.
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