Re: [IAEP] student guidelines _very_ rough draft
FWIW, Helen Foster @ Moodle handles that -- according to Google's SoC ppl -- is one of the best-run GSoCs. What I hear from students is that the explicit 'expectations' document is very good guidance. All the docs are -- I think -- interesting: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Category:GSOC as a mentor, Helen is always there, and sends me brief kind emails in advance of deadlines, calls on meta-mentors to help when I am bogged down and not answering to my mentees in timely fashion, etc. Her approach is really outstanding. As a mentor for 3 runs now, I have so say that the best indicators of success have been... - The time I spend on it -- not just direct irc time -- quality code review takes a lot of time! - How hard the students work, and how skilled they are, *before* the project starts. A student that can't get a checkout and a build going and patch a bug or two without help is of no interest to me (in the context of GSoC). Pretty damn high bar, but there are a lot of people applying for GSoC -- get the best ones :-) -- and it will be valuable dev time diverted from other work. hth, m On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:45 AM, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: This summer, Sugar Labs had 12 students working under various gsoc, intern, workstudy, and co-op programs. Overall, the results have been promising. There are a few things which we can do to improve the experience for everyone. Based on conversations with other opensource project the three keys to success for working with students are: 1. Clearly defined expectations for student, sponsor, and project. 2. Clearly project plan with implementation strategy. 3. Experienced mentor. Below is a very rough draft of a student guidelines document. I would appreciate suggestions. david Thank you for your interest in working, and learning, with Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs has a large number of smart and passionate student participants. These student often go on to become Sugar Lab's most important contributors and project leaders. One of the advantage of being a student is that you can combine your learning experience at Sugar Labs with your official school activites through intern-ships, co-ops, work study programs, and privately sponsored contracts. The following guidelines are intended to insure that your Sugar Lab's experience is beneficial for you, your school, and Sugar Labs. Working with Sugar Lab's as an intern, co-op, or work study student means that there is a contractual obligation between you, your school, and Sugar Lab's. This document represents the thoughts and deliberations which have gone into making your experience at Sugar Labs beneficial for you, your school, and Sugar Labs.[REPEATED TEXT] == project description== Experience has shown than the most important factor in having a successful experience at Sugar Labs is your project plan. The plan represents the vision of what you want to accomplish and provides roadmap for how to make that vision a reality. Exploration, collaboration, and reflection. Plan provides boundaries so you can freely explore. First big project for many students. Done before starting program good plan implies investment by student-investment by student results in good mentor. Fail to plan - Plan to fail. The plan should include: [CHECK LIST] *deliverable *learning objective ==mentor== The second most important piece to success is your mentor. link to community master - apprentice ==General information== Below is general information for filling out your school's forms. ===Overview=== Sugar Labs is organized as a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy[1]. The SFC is an umbrella organization which handles the accounting work, financial management, and makes sure the activities of Sugar Labs fit within the scope of the non-profit status. ===Mission statement=== The mission of Sugar Labs® is to produce, distribute, and support the use of the Sugar learning platform; it is a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and developers to create, extend, and teach with the Sugar learning platform. ===Funding=== Sugar Labs is funded through donations from its contributing members. ===Agency Name=== Sugar Labs (A member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy) ===Agency Contact=== Bradley M. Kuhn ===Postal Address=== Software Freedom Conservancy 1995 Broadway FL 17 New York, NY 10023-5882 ===Telephone=== +1-212-461-3245 tel +1-212-580-0898 fax ===Email=== conserva...@softwarefreedom.org ===Addition information=== For additional information or forms please contact dfarn...@sugarlabs.org. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting
Re: [IAEP] student guidelines _very_ rough draft
Thanks Martin, I'll ping Helen later today. david On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, Helen Foster @ Moodle handles that -- according to Google's SoC ppl -- is one of the best-run GSoCs. What I hear from students is that the explicit 'expectations' document is very good guidance. All the docs are -- I think -- interesting: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Category:GSOC as a mentor, Helen is always there, and sends me brief kind emails in advance of deadlines, calls on meta-mentors to help when I am bogged down and not answering to my mentees in timely fashion, etc. Her approach is really outstanding. As a mentor for 3 runs now, I have so say that the best indicators of success have been... - The time I spend on it -- not just direct irc time -- quality code review takes a lot of time! - How hard the students work, and how skilled they are, *before* the project starts. A student that can't get a checkout and a build going and patch a bug or two without help is of no interest to me (in the context of GSoC). Pretty damn high bar, but there are a lot of people applying for GSoC -- get the best ones :-) -- and it will be valuable dev time diverted from other work. hth, m On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:45 AM, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: This summer, Sugar Labs had 12 students working under various gsoc, intern, workstudy, and co-op programs. Overall, the results have been promising. There are a few things which we can do to improve the experience for everyone. Based on conversations with other opensource project the three keys to success for working with students are: 1. Clearly defined expectations for student, sponsor, and project. 2. Clearly project plan with implementation strategy. 3. Experienced mentor. Below is a very rough draft of a student guidelines document. I would appreciate suggestions. david Thank you for your interest in working, and learning, with Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs has a large number of smart and passionate student participants. These student often go on to become Sugar Lab's most important contributors and project leaders. One of the advantage of being a student is that you can combine your learning experience at Sugar Labs with your official school activites through intern-ships, co-ops, work study programs, and privately sponsored contracts. The following guidelines are intended to insure that your Sugar Lab's experience is beneficial for you, your school, and Sugar Labs. Working with Sugar Lab's as an intern, co-op, or work study student means that there is a contractual obligation between you, your school, and Sugar Lab's. This document represents the thoughts and deliberations which have gone into making your experience at Sugar Labs beneficial for you, your school, and Sugar Labs.[REPEATED TEXT] == project description== Experience has shown than the most important factor in having a successful experience at Sugar Labs is your project plan. The plan represents the vision of what you want to accomplish and provides roadmap for how to make that vision a reality. Exploration, collaboration, and reflection. Plan provides boundaries so you can freely explore. First big project for many students. Done before starting program good plan implies investment by student-investment by student results in good mentor. Fail to plan - Plan to fail. The plan should include: [CHECK LIST] *deliverable *learning objective ==mentor== The second most important piece to success is your mentor. link to community master - apprentice ==General information== Below is general information for filling out your school's forms. ===Overview=== Sugar Labs is organized as a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy[1]. The SFC is an umbrella organization which handles the accounting work, financial management, and makes sure the activities of Sugar Labs fit within the scope of the non-profit status. ===Mission statement=== The mission of Sugar Labs® is to produce, distribute, and support the use of the Sugar learning platform; it is a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and developers to create, extend, and teach with the Sugar learning platform. ===Funding=== Sugar Labs is funded through donations from its contributing members. ===Agency Name=== Sugar Labs (A member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy) ===Agency Contact=== Bradley M. Kuhn ===Postal Address=== Software Freedom Conservancy 1995 Broadway FL 17 New York, NY 10023-5882 ===Telephone=== +1-212-461-3245 tel +1-212-580-0898 fax ===Email=== conserva...@softwarefreedom.org ===Addition information=== For additional information or forms please contact dfarn...@sugarlabs.org. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
[IAEP] student guidelines _very_ rough draft
This summer, Sugar Labs had 12 students working under various gsoc, intern, workstudy, and co-op programs. Overall, the results have been promising. There are a few things which we can do to improve the experience for everyone. Based on conversations with other opensource project the three keys to success for working with students are: 1. Clearly defined expectations for student, sponsor, and project. 2. Clearly project plan with implementation strategy. 3. Experienced mentor. Below is a very rough draft of a student guidelines document. I would appreciate suggestions. david Thank you for your interest in working, and learning, with Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs has a large number of smart and passionate student participants. These student often go on to become Sugar Lab's most important contributors and project leaders. One of the advantage of being a student is that you can combine your learning experience at Sugar Labs with your official school activites through intern-ships, co-ops, work study programs, and privately sponsored contracts. The following guidelines are intended to insure that your Sugar Lab's experience is beneficial for you, your school, and Sugar Labs. Working with Sugar Lab's as an intern, co-op, or work study student means that there is a contractual obligation between you, your school, and Sugar Lab's. This document represents the thoughts and deliberations which have gone into making your experience at Sugar Labs beneficial for you, your school, and Sugar Labs.[REPEATED TEXT] == project description== Experience has shown than the most important factor in having a successful experience at Sugar Labs is your project plan. The plan represents the vision of what you want to accomplish and provides roadmap for how to make that vision a reality. Exploration, collaboration, and reflection. Plan provides boundaries so you can freely explore. First big project for many students. Done before starting program good plan implies investment by student-investment by student results in good mentor. Fail to plan - Plan to fail. The plan should include: [CHECK LIST] *deliverable *learning objective ==mentor== The second most important piece to success is your mentor. link to community master - apprentice ==General information== Below is general information for filling out your school's forms. ===Overview=== Sugar Labs is organized as a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy[1]. The SFC is an umbrella organization which handles the accounting work, financial management, and makes sure the activities of Sugar Labs fit within the scope of the non-profit status. ===Mission statement=== The mission of Sugar Labs® is to produce, distribute, and support the use of the Sugar learning platform; it is a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and developers to create, extend, and teach with the Sugar learning platform. ===Funding=== Sugar Labs is funded through donations from its contributing members. ===Agency Name=== Sugar Labs (A member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy) ===Agency Contact=== Bradley M. Kuhn ===Postal Address=== Software Freedom Conservancy 1995 Broadway FL 17 New York, NY 10023-5882 ===Telephone=== +1-212-461-3245 tel +1-212-580-0898 fax ===Email=== conserva...@softwarefreedom.org ===Addition information=== For additional information or forms please contact dfarn...@sugarlabs.org. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
