On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:21:25PM -0400, Ralph Morelli wrote: > I think it would be great if there were resources ($$) to support more > summer efforts. > GSoC is great, but, as far as I understand it, faculty aren't involved in > that so you don't really have the mediating necessary if we're going to > bridge the gap > between the FOSS development communities and our faculty colleagues and our > classrooms. Short of that, the best we can do is to follow Matt's example > and look carefully and critically at our various pedagogical experiments > until we > come up with some techniques and approaches that work.
I've seen faculty as mentors through GSoC, but they do it from being in the upstream FOSS project; Bart Massey and Joel Sherril come to mind. How could summer coding be done better for faculty? We started Fedora Summer Coding this year: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010 We're jumpstarting our program a bit because it happened that Fedora didn't get in to GSoC this year; our plans to "learn for one more year" were suddenly changed. :) This gives us a chance to build from their model, and do some things differently. You all should probably be spreading the news about this to your students; maybe I need a separate post about it, eh? Thanks - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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