Mark, I see IBM, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank participated in the event. Do you know any reference explaining more about event organization, e.g. who may sponsor event like this in Moscow?
-- With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, http://www.telecom-express.ru/ http://harmony.apache.org/ http://dataved.ru/ http://klsh.ru/ On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Mark Hindess <[email protected]> wrote: > > Catherine Hope and I represented Apache Harmony at the above event on > Saturday. The event was intended as a hands-on introduction to open > source for graduates. There are some details at: > > http://www.graduatedevelopmentcommunity.co.uk/ > > and some comments by Ross Gardler (Apache VC for Community Development) > at: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201004.mbox/%[email protected]%3e > > I had a very enjoyable (and exhausting) day working with some of the > students on Apache Harmony. It is very difficult to make meaningful > progress in a single day (especially when you have such a large project > to work on) but the students did very well and we had three patches > contributed via JIRA by the end of the day[0]. > > I've heard mixed reactions about the day. To me, it was not about > getting new committers for my project[1], but about getting the students > to understand a little about the typical processes and overcoming the > initial reluctance to make a contribution in public. The idea being > that students might then feel happy to contribute to an open source > project for fun and more importantly to have something to put on their > CVs to distinguish themselves from others when looking for work. I > think on that basis the day was a big success. The feedback from > students has been very positive too. > > We will almost certainly try to run a similar event again. > > Regards, > Mark. > > [0] I've still got some paperwork to sort out for these contributions. > > [1] Of course, I'd be very pleased if they did continue to make > contributions as they are certainly capable of doing so and there > are plenty more bugs left to find. > > >
