[TOS] Does Red Hat or Canonical have any student competitions?

Karsten Wade kwade at redhat.com
Thu Mar 3 02:08:52 UTC 2011


On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:06:32AM -0800, Cat Allman wrote:
> Karsten Wade wrote:
> > The proposal writing process involves:
> >
> > * Contacting one or more FOSS projects
> >  - You have to meet the people who put forward ideas
> >
> 
> Not clear what is meant by this; meet as in conversation online between
> applicants and members of the project?   True.

Yes, thanks, that's what I meant - meet online, such as via mailing
list and IRC.

>  - Ask questions and learn about the idea you are proposing for
> >  - Probably take some coding tests and similar
> >
> 
> Some projects require this, some don't.

Fair point, thanks. We only added one in Fedora last year (or so), and
not all proposals required one (such as the Fedora Musicians Guide
book project.)

- Karsten
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