FYI, Edgent community. I saw this on the community development list. I wanted to make you aware of this initiative. It might be a good opportunity to expand the community.
It looks like much less commitment than GSOC, sort of mentor the mentor. Best, Katherine Begin forwarded message: > From: "Antón R. Yuste" <[email protected]> > Date: September 21, 2017 at 9:07:46 AM CDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: ASF student collaboration program > Reply-To: [email protected] > > 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 >
