[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris mentoring program...

[Rob Giltrap]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> elw at stderr.org wrote:
>   
>>> Subject: [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris mentoring program...
>>>
>>> I wanted to bounce an idea off of you guys.
>>>
>>> What do you think of a mentoring program. Senior developers would be 
>>> paired with junior developers to learn various aspects of OS 
>>> development. We would do outreach to university compsci programs. (this 
>>> doesn't exclude non-students as mentees)
>> I think that this is a fantastic idea, and one well worth some discussion 
>> (and pursuit of).
>>
>> Some thoughts:
>>
>> 1) How to build a pool of experienced people?  Just ask for volunteers?
>>     
> We have some experience teaming up people in the request-sponsor program 
> and the Google Summer of Code program. So at least we may have some 
> models to discuss as we figure this out. I think it would require 
> someone to go out and get people involved after we have a shell of a 
> program outline. We have a lot of lists, communities, projects, and user 
> groups now, so it would take some legwork to build a pool of mentors. 
> But there's no reason why we couldn't start small and build up and out.

I mentored in this years GSoC program and am keen to be the OpenSolaris 
contact/admin for it next year (assuming Google run it again).

I'm not going to having any time to dedicate to this over the next three 
months but am happy to help out where I can after that.

Cheers, Rob.