On 11/13/2013 04:21 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > MediaWiki participates in a number of student competitions and programs as > an open source mentor (such as GSoC, Code-In, etc.). Today I ran into > another one: Facebook's Open Academy Program. > > https://www.facebook.com/OpenAcademyProgram > > I'm not sure how we would get involved in this program, but I'm sure people > would agree it might be a good thing to become a mentor organization and > have students contribute to MediaWiki as part of a college credit program. > > Any thoughts?
Interesting. Thank you! After reading https://www.facebook.com/notes/open-academy/welcome-to-the-open-academy-program/216150918554109 and liking the second comment (in the Facebook sense of the word), I sent an email to Jamie Lockwood CCing Tyler requesting more information: Hello Jamie, I'm the coordinator of mentorship programs at Wikimedia, including Google Summer of Code and FOSS Outreach Program for Women. I just learned about Open Academy Program thanks to Tyler, one of our veteran community contributors, and a mentor as well. I just read https://www.facebook.com/notes/open-academy/welcome-to-the-open-academy-program/216150918554109 and I wonder if you think it makes sense for Wikimedia to get involved. As you will know, participating properly in mentorship programs requires a lot of energy from anybody. We are about to start our first Google Code-in, at the same time than our third FOSS OPW. Still, we want to be open to any proposals and initiatives, and get involved as much as our possibilities permit. Thank you very much for promoting free software to new contributors! Best regards, -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
