Hi Antón, Excellent initiative! I would be more than happy to mentoring the students or helping on any way.
Cheers, Rafa El El jue, 21 sept 2017 a las 16:07, Antón R. Yuste <an...@galiglobal.com> escribió: > 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 > >
