[TOS] reorganized / updated FOSS Mentor Projects page

Stjepan Rajko stjepan.rajko at gmail.com
Fri Nov 27 22:41:54 UTC 2009


Hello,

I've been working with a professor at Arizona State University on
offering a few students independent studies next semester in which
they would work on Android open source projects (this semester they
took a class on Android development).  This inspired me to add
information on organizing "structured programs" like this to the
Mentors page [1].  While I was at it, I moved the template for new
mentor project listings on a separate page to clear things up a bit,
and updated some of the information.

Comments & critiques welcome - I'd be particularly grateful for
pointers to additional resources that are useful when organizing
something like this (I added a link to the GSoC mentoring guide and
the RPI course).  I'd also appreciate suggestions for a title better
than "Structured Programs" to describe these sorts of local efforts of
integrating FOSS Mentor Projects into classes or independent studies.
We probably need a catchy acronym. The best (worst?) ideas I have are
OPFOSDIE (organized program for open source development in education)
and SoOS ("Semester of open source").

Kind regards,
Stjepan

[1] http://teachingopensource.com/index.php/FOSS_Mentor_Projects



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