Hi! Good to see this initiative :)
I would be happy to help and mentor in general too, so count on me! In Apache jclouds we've completed a couple successful GSoC projects with students from Galicia. If you're interested in a cloud project, I would be happy to help there too. Regards, I. On 27 September 2017 at 16:06, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Antón, > > This is the right kind of initiatives and I am sure you will find quite a > few people willing to help, myself included. I am a committer on a few ASF > projects that may provide a good career for you students and would be happy > to provide help and mentorship. > > Please feel free to reach out to me once you get this off the ground. > > Good luck, > Hadrian > > > > On 09/21/2017 10:07 AM, Antón R. Yuste wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> We (the VigoJUG) are running a collaboration program (pro bono work) with >> the University of Vigo (Spain) to introduce students to Open Source >> projects as part of the end of their studies. It's the equivalent to two >> full signatures. The idea is to do a proof of concept with two students >> this year and open it to more of them in the following courses if it's a >> success. >> >> We would like to choose some of the ASF projects and we know the ASF has >> been involved in a few student programs, mostly Google >> Summer of Code but also a few others directly with universities. So we >> would like to know more about it if it makes sense in our case. >> >> In our opinion the program is a win-win for everyone: >> >> * Students from UVigo: evangelize open-source and get real experience. >> * Senior Engineers from VigoJUG: get familiar with interesting >> projects + help new engineers in our area. >> * Teachers from UVigo: they have interest in many projects of the ASF >> but they are a bit lost, this is a great opportunity for them to >> know more and look for new opportunities of collaboration. >> * ASF: some fresh blood to some projects :-) >> >> We would need from the ASF: >> >> * Some projects to work with. Issues related to automate performance >> tests or profiling would be great because they have little impact in >> the project and we have some experience on that and running some >> workshops on that. >> * Some initial mentorship. It should be little work, most of the >> mentoring should be done by the senior engineers of the VigoJUG but >> some initial guidance would be very helpful. >> >> I'm not familiar with this list (yet) so I hope this email is fine here >> :-) >> >> Best regards, >> >> Antón >> >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
