Greetings, My name is Dave Shein, and I'm an Adjunct Faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology. Along with Chris Tyler <http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Chris_Tyler>of Seneca College, we are hosting a week long POSSE<http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE>boot-camp at the RIT campus from June 20 th -24th. POSSE <http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE>, sponsored by Red Hat, is a week long educational hand-on seminar in open source process, collaboration, and education. The central purpose of POSSE<http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE>is to increase awareness and opportunities for Open Source participation in the university setting. All of POSSE participants are university staff or faculty who will take what they learn in POSSE and use that knowledge in CS and related curricula, to spread the word about open source collaboration, and to provide increased educational opportunities for CS related students. Our first two days are spent acclimating our participants to tools and resources of the open source community, but on the third and fourth day of POSSE we will have our participants do a code-sprint. We are looking for opportunities in existing open source projects which have a quick learning curve and setup time for folks with a CS background but who in most cases will not have a great depth of experience working in open source languages. We are particularly interested in having our participants hack on Fedora based projects. The students will have a Fedora F14 & F15/Linux work environment setup as part of their initial orientation, and we are looking for projects that will not have lengthy setup beyond the participants' initial setup.
We obtained information about your open source project through OpenHatch, and would like to know if your project would have elements that would be amenable to our sprint. There will be approximately fifteen to twenty participants working on the sprint in teams of 3 to 5 people each, of whom most are coders. IN ADDITION we are also looking for a project participation opportunity for 3 to 4 non-coders, possibly in the form of testing, copywriting, or editing work. Ideally we would also like to coordinate with a point-person in your organization during the period of the sprint, a person to whom participants could direct questions, perhaps via IRC in real time. If this is of interest to you please contact me at your earliest convenience. I hope that we can work together soon. David Malcom Shein Rochester Institute of Technology IRC# ProfSheinRIT on freenode -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sympy/-/TQT7Mrjtcn8J. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
