[Sugar-devel] Update on recent outreach activities in Universities

[Walter Bender]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Anish and I have recently been putting in efforts to reach out to University
> Students here in New Delhi in an effort to interest more and more talented
> programmers to join Sugar development efforts.
> We observed that there is interest and enthusiasm for students to contribute
> to such projects, when they get to know about them, however there is less
> awareness. After the initial outreach/presentation, we have coached them on
> some of the basics eg getting Fedora up and running, installing
> sugar-jhbuild (some are still facing problems), IRC, asking questions on the
> mailing lists etc
> The first batch of 5-7 students who've been interested regularly, will soon
> be joining the list and might be asking questions, as well as looking for
> projects to contribute to :)
> -Arjun
>
> --
> Arjun Sarwal
> arjun at laptop.org
> arjs at sugarlabs.org
>
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Maybe you can document your experiences in the wiki under a section
about getting university students involved. Mel has nice experiences
from the FOSSE project at RH that may complement you observations.

regards.

-walter

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Walter Bender
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