On Thursday 19 August 2010 10:13:44 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Gents,
I dunno if the other mails came through, as I got a bunch of bounces for unknown reason(s) but here is another try.
It is about a university program in Canada where students can work on FOSS for grades for a semester. It's about 8-10 hours a week for a couple of months, nothing huge, but nice. We would need to provide mentoring and junior jobs for them. Question is: can we?
I heard you were working on this, so maybe you can answer that question :D
I am working on the Junior Jobs sprint which involves using KDE's Krazy infrastructure to automatically publish defects detected by OBS to be fixed by low-hanging-fruit. However I don't think 'fixed 5700 broken .desktop files' would qualify as a senior year academic project. What I would like to suggest, spurred on by Stephen Shaw and Bryen, is that we propose an openSUSE a11y project to help complete and test the Qt AT-SPI2 bridge and its integration with a11y tools. This would also contribute cross- desktop to the robustness of the incomplete at-spi2 technologies and the existing Orca and GOK tools. Since at-spi2 is still under development according to Stephen, this would be a good time-frame for a student-project preview of the work in 11.4 and have something complete in the release after that. Will
Received from Andrew Louis:
Hi Jos, thanks so much for your email. I just replied to Lydia in another thread about a KDE project.
What do you have in mind for something openSUSE-related?
What we need right now are basically mentors (esp someone who can come to Toronto from October 1-3 for our code sprint) and a good project idea suitable for a team of 5-10 upper year computer science students to work on.
Any ideas?
If we want to make this happen though, we have to move fast as students will begin to pick which projects they want to work on soon. Worst case: we try this for January.
Another question (and I hope this is not too off-putting): would Novell be able to help the program out by sponsoring the travel costs of a few students to come to Toronto? We're still in need of a bit of financial help to make sure it happens.
Thanks so much in advance,
Andrew
-- Andrew Louis Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects Program Administrator http://ucosp.ca
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jos Poortvliet
wrote:
Hey there,
We, as in the openSUSE community, got a request from a student to be mentored for your Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects. We'd love to help him, what do we need to do?
Moreover, if you want I can easily get you in contact with other communities like KDE and GNOME, both of which already have extensive mentoring infrastructure in place due to Google Summer of Code (and KDE has the Summer of KDE project as well).
Let me know.
Greetings,
Jos Poortvliet
openSUSE Community Manager for Novell
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