[TOS] reorganized / updated FOSS Mentor Projects page

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Stjepan Rajko wrote:

> 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").

This is great stuff.  I wonder if it's time to reconvene a meeting of the 
mentors team?

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