[Ambassadors] Re: Student partnership program. Extending fedora mentor program to students.

[Aditya Sharma]

hey ankur are you a sun CA or a member of the Sun Club?

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:59 PM, ankur sinha <sanjay_ankur at yahoo.co.in>
wrote:

> hi,
>
> The idea is really great.. Im a college going student just entering 3rd
> semester in Computer sciences .. and am already looking for programmes and
> training to add to my CV for a better job.. My college, Manipal Institute of
> technology, Manipal, India, has just recently become a part of the Sun
> academic Initiative, which has some perks.. Such an educational programme
> from Fedora would be more than a dream come true.. A lot of us go through
> books and material but teaching yourself is not as efficient as a mentor
> telling you what to do and helping you apply your knowledge practically..
> Please give this programme thought.. A few hours a week will be enough from
> the mentors and there will be plenty of students who are interested and want
> to learn and contribute..
>
> Ankur
>
>
> --- On Wed, 18/6/08, Aditya Sharma <adityaksharma at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Aditya Sharma <adityaksharma at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Re: Student partnership program. Extending
> fedora mentor program to students.
> > To: fedora-ambassadors-list at redhat.com
> > Date: Wednesday, 18 June, 2008, 2:30 PM
> > this is a nice idea, but at the end of the day, there has to
> > be something
> > credible in the community like google summer of code or the
> > like to attract
> > participation from college students, lets not forget they
> > might be willing
> > to contribute but they wont unless it also helps them build
> > a credible CV,
> > so there has to be a community wide effort to integrate
> > students into the
> > main stream, the mentoring program is a great idea, and can
> > integrate
> > students but if we really want this to pick up we need to
> > have a massive
> > movement and competition among the students themselves to
> > be able to
> > contribute, and the winning contributions can win some sort
> > of certificates
> > or some monetary prize or the like, a competition will
> > bring in better
> > talent and consequently better contributions, this in no
> > way is a
> > replacement for the regular fix a bug and move up the
> > ladder routine but
> > this can occasionally like once a year or so could bring in
> > some good talent
> > and encourage participation.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Aditya Kumar Sharma
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:21 PM, "Sankarshan
> > (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <
> > foss.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > susmit shannigrahi wrote:
> > >
> > >  Generally the final/pre-final year engineering
> > students need to do
> > >> some project work on a topic.
> > >> What I personally saw that they desperately search
> > for one.
> > >>
> > >> we can make a lot of  new contributors if we
> > provide them with a
> > >> project to work, some guidence
> > >> and may be a certificate at the end. (As they say,
> > target this segment :))
> > >>
> > >
> > > Quite by chance this was the same topic that I
> > broached to Spot yesterday
> > > afternoon. And it turns out that a good place to push
> > these potential
> > > contributors would be towards doing "Fedora
> > QE" starting up with learning
> > > how to triage, process and work the bug queue and
> > additionally coming up
> > > with Test Cases.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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