maemo.org - Talk - Graduate open source jumpstart: London, 17th April

An ex-colleague, and a current colleague, of mine are involved in the Graduate Development Community. They're running an event to get graduates and soon-to-be-graduates interested in open source, before they enter the big scary world of the job market.

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Graduate Open Source Jumpstart London 2010
http://www.graduatedevelopmentcommunity.co.uk/

Through discussions on the London Graduate Development Community mailing list, it became clear that there are many students and recent graduates) who would like to contribute to Free / Open Source Software but don't know how to get started. A group of us are organizing an event to give these graduates the confidence to engage with FOSS projects.

The idea is to give groups of 4-6 students a day of experience contributing to an open source project; whether by coding, writing documentation, triaging bugs, testing or whatever.

I'm looking for volunteers who have in mind a project which is Maemo/MeeGo oriented and could occupy the students for a day in London; and who can attend to look after/mentor the students on their tasks.

Fredrik Wendt and I may propose a Hermes-oriented project: finishing the refactor and hacking on new plugins (although we'll need to sort VMware images containing Scratchbox and a runtime environment, as the attendees will have their own laptops, but not necessarily N900s!), and so a couple of other volunteers to run either a specific project or a Maemo/MeeGo corner (bug de-duping, wiki maintenance, doc writing) would be welcome.

The projects themselves can still be a bit vague (and we might be able to have a couple of slots) at the moment, but names of mentoring attendees are needed by 17:00 UTC on Tuesday, 23rd March

Let me know ASAP (i.e. within 20 hours!) if you're interested and with any ideas you've got.

Thanks in advance,

Andrew