Hello, OGB. The Advocacy CG has approved this project proposal. As
Advocacy facilitator, I submit the proposal for instantiation and
announcement. -- Jim G.
Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Mentoring Program
Purpose: To expand the OpenSolaris community through a mentoring program
that pairs senior community members with junior community members and
students.
List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project:
Advocacy Community Group
List of project leaders:
Brian Gupta (O.S. id: brandorr), primary contact
Elijah Wright (O.S. id: Elijah), alternate contact
Fauzia Saeed (O.S. id: foz)
Rob Giltrap (O.S. id: thermo)
Project Description: To pair Senior developers and sysadmins with junior
developers and sysadmins to learn various aspects of OS development and
administration. We would do outreach to university CS programs.
The desire is to expand the community of OpenSolaris developers and
admins, which will help in the long run goal of building a
self-sufficient community. Currently there are domain experts, that have
the knowledge to do certain rare skills, being able to leverage these
domain experts in this mentoring program would eventually remove these
gates roles, and allow faster development as a whole. Hopefully we will
be able to leverage experiences from the GSoC (Google Summer of Code)
mentoring facilitators.
Project Needs: This project requires project space on opensolaris.org
site. The project also requires a mailing list. Suggested list name is
mentoring at opensolaris dot org.
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