Hi, Le samedi 17 novembre 2012, à 11:37 -0800, DuBois, Scott L. a écrit :
Hi Bruno and All,
I just finished reading through the minutes and a couple of things caught my attention:
* we did a bad job at creating a list of ideas for students since we didn't have any ideas :/ (vuntz, 17:38:27) * next time, we will need to evaluate if there's interest for mentoring students in GCI, so we can know if it's worth applying (vuntz, 17:45:47)
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As a a forerunner in major open source Linux distributions, I feel it is imperative that openSUSE promote the involvement and recruitment of students into the fold through sources such as GCI. Besides
Just to clarify: GCI is for high-school students, not for university students (GSoC is for university students, though).
subscribing to mailing lists to stay current with happenings at openSUSE and the variety of projects going on, I also scan through my university forums and find many students always asking questions of how to find a good mentor that will help them develop their skills so they can make that transition into their chosen fields even if what they are doing now has no relation to information technology. My responses to them are always to look towards openSUSE, KDE, Gnome or any of the other open source projects who always need people to work on a variety of projects and help with their development. Some students know very little about programming however, are very eager to learn and be pro-active. Many students aren't sure where to turn and are often looking for someone to hold out a hand and say "Hey, come check us out, were a lot of fun to hang out with and we'll show you how to do some really cool stuff."
We definitely need people who are able to attract newcomers, and guide them so they can start contributing! We have a nice wiki page summarizing how to start participating which is a good basis for that: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:How_to_participate Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org