[Ambassadors] thinking about the mentor program

[Dipanjan Chakraborty]

Its not that 'official'. They would like somebody not related to the college
to approach them.

Dipanjan Chakraborty

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:49 AM, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <
foss.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dipanjan Chakraborty wrote:
>
>> The case with my college is that they want somebody from Fedora to
>> approach them officially. Susmit is working on that. And I am sure he will
>> come up with a solution soon.
>>
>
> By 'officially' if you mean in the same fashion as any software development
> company in your local area approaches the college, then it might be sometime
> before we arrive at a process for that. Susmit is still at the initial
> stages of a discussion around the issue.
>
>  No doubt certifications will be an incentive. But are there enough
>> projects for the undergraduate level students? We must work on this point.
>>
>
> We can't work on 'this' point till we arrive at some sort of conclusion as
> to how much pre-loaded with knowledge the target students are. Have they
> been doing a variety of thing around OS or applications ? If yes, then they
> are easily pointed to various projects (rather, I'd argue that in this case
> they would be the ones coming up with various projects). From whatever my
> limited comprehension of the education system and colleges is, this isn't
> the case (in India) in a majority of the colleges in India. On the
> fedora-india list there is an ongoing discussion about how best to ramp up
> the skillsets of the potential candidates participating in this program. A
> large part of that is being inspired by what is happening on #dgplug and its
> IRC classes. Perhaps you'd like to latch on to that thread.
>
> As we stand now, we are trying to roll a program for an audience about whom
> we don't know much, and barring the 'we'd like official contact' nothing
> much is known about the authorities who would accept this program.
>
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